Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799). Nat. Mise., 10, pl. 385-386. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, New Holland (= Sydney). DISTRIBUTION: Queensland, New South Wales, SE South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania (Australia). STATUS: Common but vulnerable to local extinction. SYNONYMS: brevirostris, crispus, fuscus, laevis, novaehollandiae, paradoxus, phoxinus, rufus, triton. COMMENTS: Name is commonly attributed to Shaw and Nodder, but Nodder was the publisher, not an author.Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Monotremata, pp. 13 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735309