![]() ![]() ![]() Permanent freshwater streams and shallow lakes, isolated pools in ephemeral streams, water storage lakes, weir pools, other artificial ponds, and freshwater wetlands and their adjacent riparian zones from tropical rainforest lowlands to the high elevations of Tasmania and the Australian Alps. Tail is broad, flat, and sparsely furred, with coarser hairs than body pelage. Males have a spur of c.1-5 cm in length on ankle region of both hindlimbs. Limbs are short, forefeet are webbed and have broad nails, and hindfeet are partially webbed with sharp claws. Eyes and ear openings are in single grooves on each side of head. It has a streamlined body shape and distinctive bill. Has dense, waterproof, and insulating pelage, dark brown to reddish-brown above and pale brown to silvery-cream ventrally. For example, individuals from rivers flowing inland from the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales and Victoria are often larger than those found in streams flowing toward the coast in these states. Some populations also exhibit size variations, apparently not related to latitudinal distribution. There is a clinal increase in body size from north to south, with Tasmanian populations exhibiting larger body size and weight. Is sexually dimorphic, with males ¢.25% larger than females. Introduced into W Kangaroo I.ĭescriptive notes. E Australian mainland, including the states of Victoria, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and Queensland (N up to near Cooktown), Tasmania, and King I. Was accepted as the genus but anatinus was deemed to have priority over paradoxusas the species name. Had already been given to a genus of beetles, so Blumenbach’s Blumenbach independently described another specimen, which in 1800 he named In 1799, one of these specimens (now the type specimen held in the Natural History Museum in London) was described by G. Hunter of aīeing speared by aboriginal people in a freshwater lagoon around 60 km north-west of the penal colony ofPort Jackson (now Sydney) in 1797, a number of specimens ofthis strange small furred and amphibious animal were transported to England and to Europe. ![]() anatinus is often given as “Australia, New South Wales, New Holland (= Sydney),” which did not appear in Shaw’s original publication, and seems to be a subsequent amalgamation of information from various sources. French: Ornithorynque / German: Schnabeltier / Spanish: Ornitorrinco ![]()
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