Description
This is a colour photograph of the internal skull of a platypus ('Ornithorhynchus anatinus'). This museum specimen displays two components of the skull: the braincase with fused rostrum and the lower jaw. This image has a pale background and includes a black scale line representing 2 cm. Museum identification labels are attached to the skull. (Classification - Phylum: Chordata, Class: Mammalia, Order: Monotremata, Family: Ornithorhynchidae).
Acknowledgements
| Credits | Reproduced courtesy of Museum Victoria |
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| Creator | Marnie Rawlinson, photographer Cathy Accurso, photographer Ken Walker, photographer |
| Identifiers | Museum Victoria specimen registration number C 28665
TLF resource R7915 |
| Source | Museum Victoria, http://museumvictoria.com.au/ |
