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[pogona]

The plural of Platypus is not Platypi.
It could well be Platypodes.

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Comments

[explodi]

Are you implying that the name Platypus is of Greek origin? I know that Ornithorhynchus Anatinus is greekolatin.

[cygninae]

From the Online Etymological Dictionary:

1799, from Mod.L., from Gk. platypous, lit. "flat-footed," from platys "broad, flat" (see place (n.)) + pous "foot."
"Orig. the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 changed for Ornithorhyncus." [OED]

Guess you pays your money, you takes your choice.....