Platypus  (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Range

The platypus is endemic to Australia, where it occurs in eastern Queensland and New South Wales, eastern, central and south-western Victoria, and throughout Tasmania. In addition there is an introduced population on Kangaroo Island, South Australia (1).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Found mainly in streams and rivers with earth banks suitable for burrows, but also occurs in lakes and farm dams (3) (6) (8).

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