Monotremes - duck-billed platypus and
echidnas or spiny anteaters first appeared in the Pleistocene Period. They are currently
found in Australia and New Guinea and reproduce by by shelled eggs, incubated by
female. There is no organized nipple as the milk flows from mammary
ducts onto the fur of the abdomen. The adults are toothless and the
rostrum is covered with horny beak.
Research Links
Order
Monotremata
... Order Monotremata. (2 Families; 3 genera). Monotremes
probably split from the lineage leading to ...
GeoZoo: The
egg-laying Platypus and Echidnas! (order ...
... The order Monotremata includes just three species, the platypus and the
short-
and long-nosed echidnas. Home base for monotremes is Australia an island ...
Mammal
Collection Holdings - Order MONOTREMATA
MAMMAL COLLECTION HOLDINGS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES
COUNTY ORDER MONOTREMATA. (Broken down to Country and State) ...
Monotremes
Order Monotremata Monotremes belong to an evolutionary
lineage that can be traced back approximately ...
Order
Monotremata: Echidnas & Platypus
... Skulls/Skeleton (Replica) > Order Monotremata: Echidnas & Platypus.
...
Animal
Links - Order Monotremata (Monotremes)
Animal Pictures Archive. Home > Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia >
Order Monotremata Order Monotremata (Monotremes). ...
Monotremes
- Order Monotremata
... Order Monotremata. This is a small and unique order of mammals placed by
themselves
in the subclass Prototheria. There are only 3 living species of monotremes ...
Virginia
Hayssen
... Order Monotremata. Family Ornithorhynchidae Ornithorhynchus
anatinus, 585, Platypus Order Didelphimorphia. ...
MSL, Order
Monotremata
Mammal Image Library Catalog. ... ORDER MONOTREMATA. Family
ORNITHORHYNCHIDAE - Platypus. Ornithorhynchus ...
Monotremata
Order Monotremata. Family Tachyglossidae. LINK TO
"The Echidna Gallery"(Tachyglossus aculeatus and ...
Mammals -
Marsupials
Class Mammalia - Mammals. Subclass Prototheria: Egg-laying
mammals. Order Monotremata: Monotremes. ...
Mammal
Species of the World
MSW Scientific Names. [Query] [Home] [Help] Copyright 1993 Smithsonian
Institution.
All rights are reserved. [Parent] [Offspring] [Synonyms] ORDER MONOTREMATA. ...
AnimalWeb
AnimalFact. Definitions: Phylum| Sub-Phylum| Class| Order| Family| Species
Phylum:
Chordata. Sub-Phylum: Vertebrata. Class: Mammalia. Order: Monotremata. Family:
...
Monotremata
... Order Monotremata. The Family of Tachyglossidae - Echidnas.
The Family of Ornithorhynchidae - Platypus. ...
Lecture 06 - Monotr.
... Classification of Class Mammalia; Order Monotremata. Classification of
Recent Mammals
to ordinal level. ... Order Monotremata (meaning: "one holed" -
Organisms). ...
Ooi's Malaysiana
Class of Mammals 2000
... 0). Order Monotremata (Egg Laying Mammals), 2. 6.
Subclass Theria Theria, 95 (0), 4013 (0). Infraclass ...
vertebrata
... Clasification. Subclass Prototheria Order Monotremata
-- Monotremes: platypus and echidnas. Subclass ...
MONOTREME. The
Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000
... (m n tr m ) (KEY), name for members of the primitive mammalian order
Monotremata,
found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The only members of this order ...
The Elusive
Platypus
... and rigid examination that we can persuade ourselves of its being the real
beak
or snout of a quadruped (Barrett, 1955). Description of the Order Monotremata.
...
Monotremata
Order Monotremata Prototheria Mammalia Tetrapoda Chordata Animalia Eukaryota.
Fossils from 2 mya, Australia. 2000 Brock Filer filerba@adams.edu.
Order
Monotremata
HELP INDEX NEXT UP PREVIOUS FEEDBACK TEST ATG Order
Monotremata Order Monotremata Duckbill Platypus ...
Monotremata
... Order Monotremata. Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of
Zoology.
Monotremata. Department of Anatomy & Physiology. University of Tasmania ...
Critter
Chart
... Hedgehogs. Family Soricidae. Shrews. Family Talpidae. Moles. ORDER
MONOTREMATA
(monotremes). Family Ornithorhynchidae. Platypuses. Family Tachyglossidae.
Echidnas. ...
BIO-451:
Lecture 4 Frame Table of Contents
BIO-451: Lecture 4: BIO-451: Mammalogy; Order Monotremata; Order Monotremata
con’t;
Order Monotremata; Order Monotremata; Order Monotremata con’t; Order
Monotremata ...
Evolution
and classification - Britannica.com
... Order Monotremata (monotremes) Pleistocene to Recent of Australia and New
Guinea; possible record in Miocene of Australia family (Ectopodontidae ...
Google
Web Directory - Science > Biology > Zoology > ...
... GeoZoo: The egg-laying Platypus and Echidnas! (order Monotremata) - http://www.geobop.com/Mammals/Monotremata/
A very nice summary of the oddities of Monotremes ...
Mammalogy
Laboratory 3 - Monotremes and Marsupials
... Order Monotremata. Family Ornithorhynchidae (Platypus).
Range: E. Australia. Genus: Ornithorhynchus. ...
CYPLUS
NR19 Fauna Distribution, App 2 Fauna of Cape York ( ...
... Rat-kangaroo 9 9 SI Mammals. 4.5 Order : Monotremata
Platypus and Echinda. 31 records, 2 species, 30 ...
Short-nosed
Echidna
... Tachyglossus aculeatus MAMMAL Order Monotremata. Description Head and body
length:
13-20 inches. Tail: 3 inches. Weight: 13 pounds. The spines, which cover most
...
JHUP
- WALKER'S MAMMALS OF THE WORLD, by Ronald M. Nowak ...
... ORDER MONOTREMATA. Monotremes. The monotremes, comprising two families,
three genera,
and three species of Australia and New Guinea, are the most distinctive of ...
Untitled
Document
... Subphylum Vertebrata. Class Mammalia. Order Monotremata. back. Animal #26
(duck-billed
platypus). ... Class Mammalia. Order Monotremata. back. Animal #27 [tree sloth].
...
Introduction
to Monotremata
... Ornithorhynchus anatinus. The order Monotremata is a fairly ancient
mammalian
taxon. It includes two families, Ornithorhynchidae (Ornithorhynchus*) and ...
the
Evolution and Phylogeny of the Platypus
... Prototherians... Platypusses belong to Order Monotremata. Like other
mammals, monotremes
have hair, active metabolism driven by powerful diaphrams and four ...
Platypus Facts
... Related Animals. The platypus is a member of the order