The weevil pinhole borer genus Platypus was described prior to the mammalian platypus, so the furry animal had to have the alternate name Ornithorhynchus (Forster 2009)
References
Forster, L August 2009, Tasmanian Beetles and Spiders, , accessed 14 April 2023, <https://sites.google.com/site/lynneforster/home>.