Bibliography for Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799)
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- Anderson, J. 1802. Notices of a singular animal, lately discovered in New South Wales, with a figure. Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts and Miscellaneous Literature 2 2: 562-565
- Augee, M.L. (ed.) 1978. Monotreme biology. Proceedings of a symposium held in Sydney, May 1978. The Australian Zoologist 20: 1-257
- Augee, M.L. (ed.) 1992. Platypus and Echidnas. Mosman : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 296 pp.
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- Blumenbach, J.F. 1800. 41. Ornithorhynchus paradoxus. Das Schnabelthier. Abbildungen naturhistorischer Gegenstände. Blumenbach, J.F. (ed.) 5tes heft. Göttingen : J.C. Dieterich.
- Blumenbach, J.F. 1800. Über das Schnabelthier (Ornithorhynchus paradoxus) ein neuentdecktes Geschlecht von Säugthieren des fünften Welttheils. Magazin für den Neuesten Zustand der Naturkunde 2: 205-214
- Burrell, H. 1927. The Platypus its discovery, zoological position, form and characteristics, habits, life history, etc. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 227 pp. 35 pls.
- Carrick, F.N. 1995. Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus. pp. 36-38 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
- CAVS Listing. The Australian Faunal Directory, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd
- Collins, [D.] 1802. An Account of the English Colony of New South Wales, from its first settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801 …. London : T. Cadell jun. & W. Davies 2 xvi 336 pp.
- Collins, W.R. 1973. Monotremes and Marsupials a Reference for Zoological Institutions. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press vi 323 pp.
- Connolly, J.H., Obendorf, D.L., Whittington, R.J. & Muir, D.B. 1998. Causes of morbidity and mortality in platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) from Tasmania, with particular reference to Mucor amphibiorum infection. Australian Mammalogy 20: 177-187
- de Plater, G., Martin, R.L. & Milburn, P.J. 1995. A pharmacological and biochemical investigation of the venom from the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Toxicon 33: 157-169
- Ellem, B.A., Bryant, A. & O'Connor, A. 1998. Statistical modelling of platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) habitat preferences using generalised linear models. Australian Mammalogy 20: 281-285
- Evans, B.K., Jones, D.R., Baldwin, J. & Gabbott, G.R.J. 1994. Diving ability of the platypus. Australian Journal of Zoology 42: 17-27
- Finnie, E.P. & Thomas, D.E. 1982. Management of monotremes at Taronga Zoo, Sydney. pp. 1-3 in Evans, D.D. (ed.). The Management of Australian Mammals in Captivity. Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Healesville, Victoria, February 1979. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria 194 pp.
- Fish, F.E., Baudinette, R.V., Frappell, P.B. & Sarre, M.P. 1997. Energetics of swimming by the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus: metabolic effort associated with rowing. Journal of Experimental Biology 200: 2647-2652
- Gardner, J.L. & Serena, M. 1995. Spatial organisation and movement patterns of adult male platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Monotremata : Ornithorhynchidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 91-103
- Gemmell, N.J., Grant, T.R., Western, P.S., Walmsley, J.et al. 1995. Determining platypus relationships. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 283-292
- Gemmell, N.J., Grant, T.R., Western, P.S., Wamsley, J., Watson, J.M., Murray, N.D. & Graves, J.A.M. 1994. Determining platypus relationships. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 283-291
- Grant, T.R. 1983. Behavioral ecology of monotremes. pp. 360–394 in Eisenberg, J.F. & Kleiman, D.G. (eds) Advances in the Study of Mammalian Behavior. The American Society of Mammalogists. Spec. Publ. No. 7.
- Grant, T.R. 1993. The past and present freshwater fishery in New South Wales and the distribution and status of the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus. The Australian Zoologist 29: 105-113
- Grant, T.R. & Bishop, K.A. 1998. Instream flow requirements for the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus): a review. Australian Mammalogy 20: 267-280
- Grant, T.R. & Temple-Smith, P.D. 1998. Growth of nestling and juvenile platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Australian Mammalogy 20: 221-230
- Grant, T.R. & Whittington, R.J. 1991. The use of freeze branding and implantation transponder tags as a permanent marking method for platypuses Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Monotremata: Ornithorhynchidae). Australian Mammalogy 14: 147-150
- Gregory, J.E., Iggo, A., McIntyre, A.K. & Proske, U. 1989. Responses of electroreceptors in the platypus bill to steady and alternating potentials. Journal of Physiology 408: 391-404
- Gruber, J.W. 1991. Does the platypus lay eggs? The history of an event in science. Archives of Natural History 18: 51-123
- Gust, N. & Handasyde, K. 1995. Seasonal variation in the ranging behaviour of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) on the Goulbourn River, Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 283-291
- Hale, H.M. & Somerville, J.D. 1942. The platypus in South Australia. South Australian Naturalist 21: 11-12
- Hawkins, M. & Fanning, D. 1992. Courtship and mating behaviour of captive platypuses at Taronga Zoo. pp. 106-114 in Augee, M.L. (ed.). Platypus and Echidnas. Mosman : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 296 pp.
- Hawkins, M.R. 1998. Time and space sharing between platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in captivity. Australian Mammalogy 20: 195-205
- Hughes, R.L. 1993. Monotreme development with particular reference to the extraembryonic membranes. Journal of Experimental Zoology 266: 480-494
- Jabukowski, J.M., New, N.P., Stone, G.M. & Jones, R.C. 1998. Reproductive seasonality in female platypuses, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, in the Upper Barnard River, New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 20: 207-213
- Janke, A., Gemmell, N.J., Feldmaierfuchs, G., von Haeseler, A. & Paabo, S. 1996. The mitochondrial genome of a monotreme - the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Journal of Molecular Evolution 42: 153-159
- Krubitzer, L., Manger, P., Pettigrew, J. & Calford, M. 1995. Organization of the somatosensory cortex in monotremes - in search of the prototypical plan. Journal of Comparative Neurology 351: 261-306
- Kruuk, H. 1993. The diving behaviour of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in waters with different trophic status. Journal of Applied Ecology 30: 592-598
- Lacépède, B.G.É. (as Lacépède) 1800. Nouvelle table méthodique de la classe des mammifères. pp. 66–86 Appendix to Anon. (1800). Séances des Écoles Normales, recueillies par des sténographes, et revues par les professeurs. Nouv. édn Tome huitème.
- Macgillivray, W. 1827. Description of a new species of Ornithorynchus. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh 6: 127-132 [publication date established from Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], I. (as Is. G. St.-H.) 1827. Ornithorhynque. Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. Ouvrage dirigé par ce dernier collaborateur, et dans lequel on a ajouté, pour le porter au niveau de la science, un grand nombre de mots qui n'avaient pu faire partie de la plupart des Dictionnaires antérieurs. 12 (NUA-PAM): 392–411. [408]; the date printed on the title page of Tome Douzième (NUA-PAM) is Août 1827]
- Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988]
- Manger, P.R. & Pettigrew, J.D. 1995. Electroreception and the feeding behaviour of platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 347: 359-382
- Marshall, B. 1992. Late Pleistocene human exploitation of the platypus in southern Tasmania. pp. 268-276 in Augee, M.L. (ed.). Platypus and Echidnas. Mosman : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 296 pp.
- Murray, P. 1984. Furry egg-layers: the monotreme radiation. pp. 571-583 in Archer, M. & Clayton, G. (eds). Vertebrate Zoogeography & Evolution in Australasia — Animals in Space & Time. Carlisle : Hesperian Press.
- Musser, A.M. 1998. Evolution, biogeography and palaeontology of the Ornithorhynchidae. Australian Mammalogy 20: 147-162
- New, N.P., Jabukowski, J.M., Stone, G.M. & Jones, R.C. 1998. Seasonal pattern of androgen secretion in the male platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, in the Upper Barnard River, New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 20: 215-220
- Obendorf, D.L., Peel, B.F. & Munday, B.L. 1993. Mucor amphibiorum infection in platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) from Tasmania. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 29: 458-487
- Ogilby, W. 1832. On two new species of Mammalia from New Holland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1831: 149-151 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [436]]
- Péron, F. 1807. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, Exécuté par Ordre de Sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi, sur les Corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la Goelette le Casurina, Pendant les Années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Tome premier. Paris : Imprimerie Impériale xv 498 pp.1 pl. Atlas.
- Proske, U., Gregory, J.E. & Iggo, A. 1998. A review of recent developments in the study of electroreception in the platypus. Australian Mammalogy 20: 163-170
- Rowe, M.J. & Bohringer, R.C. 1992. Functional organisation of the cerebral cortex in monotremes. pp. 177-193 in Augee, M.L. (ed.). Platypus and Echidnas. Mosman : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 296 pp.
- Scheich, H., Langner, G.,Tidemann, C., Coles, R.B. & Guppy, A. 1986. Electroreception and electrolocation in platypus. Nature (London) 319: 401-402
- Serena, M. 1994. Use of time and space by platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus: Monotremata) along a Victorian stream. Journal of Zoology, London 232: 117-132
- Serena, M., Thomas, J.L., Williams, G.A. & Officer, R.C.E. 1998. Use of stream and river habitats by the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in an urban fringe environment. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 267-283
- Shaw, G. 1799. Platypus anatinus. The Duck-billed Platypus. The Naturalists' Miscellany: containing accurate and elegant coloured figures of the most curious and beautiful productions of nature; with descriptions in Latin and English in the Linnaean manner. To which are added descriptions more at large, and calculated for general information. No. 118. London : F.P. Nodder & Co. Vol. 10 7 unnumbered pages of text pls 385-386.
- Strauch, A. 1859. De loco monotrematibus in systemate zoologico assignando et de ornithorhynchi anatini Shaw. Calcari. Dissertatio inauguralis quam consensu et auctoritate gratiosi medicorum ordinis in universitate literarum caesarea dorpatensi ad gradum doctoris medicinae rite adipiscendum loco consueto palam difendet. Adjectis commentationum de monotrematibus scriptarum indice et tabula lithorgraphica. Dorpati. Livonorum : Henrici Laakmanni 100 pp. 1 pl.
- Tanaka, Y., Eishi, Y. & Morris, B. 1988. Splenic hemopoiesis of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus): evidence of primary hemopoiesis in the spleen of a primitive mammal. American Journal of Anatomy 181: 401-405
- Thomas, O. 1923. The Godman Exploration Fund: List of mammals from north Queensland collected by Mr T.V. Sherrin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 170-178
- Tsujii, T., Inoue, S., Naora, H. & Seno, S. 1992. Morphology of the kidney of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus, Monotremata). Anatomical Records 234: 348-358
- Turner, S. 1980. How to attract the wombat - a tale of five days of discovery (with apologies to Harold Cuppy). Museologie 5: 45-48
- Westergaard, B. 1983. A new detailed model for mammalian dentitional evolution. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 21: 68-78
- Whitley, G.P. 1975. More Early History of Australian Zoology. Sydney : The Zoological Society of New South Wales 91 pp.
- Whittington, R.J. & Grant, J.T. 1995. Hematological changes in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) following capture. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 31: 386-390
- Wrigley, J.M. & Graves J.A.M. 1988. Karyotypic conservation in the mammalian order Monotremata (subclass Prototheria). Chromosoma (Berlin) 96: 231-247
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