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Old 26-September-2008, 01:26 PM
Grashtel Grashtel is offline
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Originally Posted by JohnD View Post
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
Did you bother to read the Wikipedia page? THe first paragraph is:
Monotremes (from the Greek monos 'single' + trema 'hole', referring to the cloaca) are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials (Metatheria) and placental mammals (Eutheria).
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