Species Profile
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Duck-billed platypus
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
It lives in freshwater rivers and streams of Australia.
It swims well and feeds on aquatic invertebrates.
Important evolutionary link among mammals.
Size & Structure
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Streamlined body
02
Duck-like bill
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Dense brown fur
04
Webbed feet
Ornithorhynchus anatinus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well-developed brain and spinal cord
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, double
- Development type
- Direct (oviparous)
- Respiratory type
- Lungs
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Predator of aquatic insects
Maintains river food chains
Burrowing aerates river banks
Economic Importance
Evolutionary research
Tourism value
Conservation importance