Pronunciation key ( duk′bil′) |
duck•bill
n.
Small (about 1.5 ft. length), egg-laying water mammal with webbed feet and a beaver-like tail and a bill similar to a duck's. Also called platypus.
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| Kingdom | Animalia – Animal, animals |
| Phylum | Chordata – chordates |
| Subphylum | Vertebrata – vertebrates |
| Class | Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammals |
| Subclass | Prototheria Gill, 1872 – egg-laying mammals |
| Order | Monotremata Bonaparte, 1837 |
| Family | Ornithorhynchidae Gray, 1825 |
| Genus | Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach, 1800 |
| Species | Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) – duck-billed platypus, Platypus |
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