Platypus

Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw 1799)

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Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Platypus) is a species of mammal in the family platypus. It is found in Australasia. It is a carnivore.

URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Australasia
Attribution: Udvardy, M. D. F. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN Occasional Paper no. 18. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue

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EOL has data for 48 attributes, including:

Biogeographic realm
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_00000071
- Definition: The largest scale biogeographic division of the earth's surface based on the historic and evolutionary distribution patterns of plants and animals.
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Australasia
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Australasia
- Attribution: Udvardy, M. D. F. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN Occasional Paper no. 18. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region
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Japan
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/1861060
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
- Definition: The organism inhabits this environment or ecoregion.
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lake
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000020
- Definition: A body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land.
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primary diet
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/PrimaryDiet
- Definition: Type of food comprising the majority of the diet of an animal.
- Attribution: Richard M. Sibly, Christopher C. Witt, Natalie A. Wright, Chris Venditti, Walter Jetz, and James H. Brown. 2012. Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds. PNAS 109(27):10937-10941, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206512109
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vertebrates
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/vertebrate
- Definition: Members of the clade Vertebrata. http://eol.org/pages/2774383
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trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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carnivore
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
- Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
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