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For example, the platypus has challenged animal classifiers.
Occasionally, the colloquial name, by itself, adds to the information given in the binomial: the platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinas ) is a (ducklike, bird-snouted) flatfoot.
On the other there were new names, borrowings from Aboriginal languages, like boobook, dingo, koala, kurrajong, wallaby, wallaroo, waratah, and wombat, all from Dharuk (the Sydney language); descriptive names like blackbutt, bottlebrush, duckbill, flooded gum, and gumtree; or popular adoptions of scientific names like banksia, callistemon, casuarina, boronia, eucalyptus, and platypus.
My child, the duck-billed platypus A sad example sets for us.
More specific examples are: common earthworm ( Lumbricus terrestris ), European polecat ( Mustela putorius ), and duckbill platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus ). These names must be in the "Common Name" database for the sequence entry to be identified with this method.