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Old 26-September-2008, 01:04 PM
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Platypus is not mammal.
It's a monotreme. They have a cloaca, rather than an anus and a genital opening.
That puts it, alone with the echidna, alongside all the Mammalia, Reptilia, Gastropoda, Insecta, etc. etc.
See:
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:289052
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme

John
It's a monotreme. I am a placental. Kangaroo etc are marsupial but we are all mammals. The mothers can lactate via their mammaries. The first line in your wiki link refers to them as mammals.
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