MONOTREMATAMONOTREMATA
| Australia 1992 | Australia 1994 |
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| Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus (Tachyglossidae) |
Duckbilled Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Ornithorhynchidae) |
| Australia 1967 COPPER-NICKEL | Australia 1967 COPPER-NICKEL |
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| Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus (Tachyglossidae) (MONOTREMATA) |
Duckbilled Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Ornithorhynchidae) (MONOTREMATA) |
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| Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus (Tachyglossidae) (MONOTREMATA) |
Giant Echidna Megalibgwilia ramsayi (Tachyglossidae) iMONOTREMATAj |
Duckbilled Platypus Ornithorynchus anatinus (Ornithorhynchidae) (MONOTREMATA) |
The monotremata is the mammalian animal which lays an egg, and breast-feed you, the existence species is only an echidna and a platypus.
The echidna is head long torso 30-35cm, 2.5-6kg in weight. Many to a back; is thorny, and round a body in the shape of a ball when is attacked by a foreign enemy. Soft hair grows in the interval of the splinter and limbs, the abdomen, and there is the nail which is suitable Takeo to dig soil to a leg. It inhabit the various environment from the half drying place to the highlands. The lips sharp thin produce a sticky tongue and prey on a termite. The sense of smell is sharp, but there is not much eyesight to the eyes small.
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