ornithorhynchus

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Meaning

See Duck mole, under Duck.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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This is why the platypus belongs to the genus Ornithorhynchus: although George Shaw named it Platypus in 1799, that name had already been given to a group of ambrosia beetles by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1793. Source: Internet

The animal is the sole living representative of its family ( Ornithorhynchidae ) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record. Source: Internet

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