Monotremata

If moving from monotreme dreams to 'treme genes leaves you hungry for more information on Ornithorhynchus anatinus, reread this old Jurisdynamics post, Monotremata. posted by Jim Chen at 1:46 AM

The platypus genome 2008

All orders are labelled and major lineages are coloured as follows: black, Monotremata; orange, Marsupialia; blue, Afrotheria; yellow, Xenarthra; green, Laurasiatheria; and red, Euarchontoglires.

The Panda's Thumb: March 2007 Archives 2007

All orders are labelled and major lineages are coloured as follows: black, Monotremata; orange, Marsupialia; blue, Afrotheria; yellow, Xenarthra; green, Laurasiatheria; and red, Euarchontoglires.

Don't blame the dinosaurs - The Panda's Thumb 2007

All this is plenty to justify designating order Monotremata as the Jurisdynamics Network's taxon of the week. posted by Jim Chen at 1:05 AM

Archive 2006-09-01 2006

All this is plenty to justify designating order Monotremata as the Jurisdynamics Network's taxon of the week. posted by Jim Chen at 1:05 AM

Monotremata 2006

In the Monotremata there is no scrotum, the testes are in a position similar to that which obtains in Reptiles, and they are the only Mammals in which these organs are anterior to the kidneys.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

In the earliest stage represented by the Monotremata or Prototheria, there was no intra-uterine development.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

There even occurs a unique order, still lower in the scale of organization -- so low, in fact, that it deserves to be regarded as but nascent mammalian: I mean, of course, the Monotremata.

Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871

Lastly, the fact that Marsupials occur in the Trias, coupled with the fact that the still existing Monotremata are what may be termed animated fossils, referring us by their lowly type of organization to some period enormously more remote, -- these facts render it practically certain that some members of this very highest class of the highest sub-kingdom must have existed far back in the Primaries.

Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871

Sloths, peculiar to America; 2nd, _Effodientia_, or Burrowers, of which the Indian type is the Manis, but which includes in other parts of the world the Armadillos and Anteaters; 3rd, _Monotremata_, Spiny

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870