Platypus research

Platypus research - Detail of a venom spur on the ankle of the hind foot of the male Platypus - Order Monotremata (Monotremes); Family Ornithorhynchidae (Platypus); Scientific name: Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Common name: Platypus; Alternative, obsolete common name: Duck-billed Platypus – Distribution in Australia: A unique Australian egg-laying mammal inhabiting rivers and streams of Tasmania and eastern Australia south from Bowen in north-eastern Queensland through eastern New South Wales and most of Victoria (apart from the north-western part of the state) to Lower Glenelg River in south-western Victoria – Note: Apart from an introduced population on Kangaroo Island, Platypus is now extinct in South Australia.