Image: Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). First Description 1799
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Description: This illustration by Frederick Polydore Nodder is the first published illustration of a platypus. It accompanied George Shaw's 1799 description of the animal in the Naturalist's Miscellany, or Coloured figures of natural objects". London:Nodder & Co.
Title: Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). First Description 1799
Credit: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40321089
Author: Frederick Polydore Nodder
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