This family was created by John Edward Gray (1800-1875) in 1825 and contains today nothing any more but one kind of only one species: Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799), of the Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach, 1800.

There were other species, now disappeared, in this family:

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