#0325 · 🦊 mammals
Platypus
🇳🇱 Vogelbekdier ·Ornithorhynchus anatinus
📍 Tidbinbilla, ACT
📍 Petrie Creek, Nambour, QLD, AU
📍 Thomson VIC 3825, Australia
📍 Queensland, Australia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Alec Karcz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Geoff Walker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Matt Campbell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nimzee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nimzee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Adam Richardt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Tidbinbilla, ACT:© Scott Gilmore · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Petrie Creek, Nambour, QLD, AU:© Ruth Huckstepp · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Thomson VIC 3825, Australia:© Matt Campbell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Queensland, Australia:© Alex Slavenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus ), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus , is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. The animal is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus ( Ornithorhynchus ), though a number of related species appear in the fossil...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,278 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by George Shaw in 1799 (227 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Platypus
- Nederlands
- Vogelbekdier
- scientific name
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Monotremata
- family
- Ornithorhynchidae
- IUCN Red List
- NT · near threatened
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,278
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1799 by George Shaw
IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43236, Wikidata Q15343, GBIF 2433376, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.