egg-laying mammal
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The most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria (synset 101874516)
is a type of: prototherian - primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guineasubtypes:
- anteater, echidna, spiny anteater - a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
- anteater, echidna, spiny anteater - a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
- duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus - small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
same as: monotreme
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