What type of water does a platypus live in?

Platypuses do not actually live in any rivers. They live alongside a variety of freshwater rivers through Australia's eastern states, as they dig burrows in the bnaks of creeks and rivers. The rivers are too many to list: in New South Wales alone, platypuses are believed to be living by all rivers which flow east from the rivers Great Dividing Range, and in the upper reaches of thirteen of the state's westward-flowing rivers.

Platypuses are common throughout Tasmanian waterways, while in South Australia they are found by creeks and rivers on Kangaroo Island, and occasionally are reported in the Riverland area of the Murray River.

Platypuses are believed to be found along 26 of Victoria's 31 river systems. They are most common in parts of the Goulburn and Ovens River catchments and waterways in the Otway Ranges and East Gippsland. Platypuses have been reported occasionally downstream of Echuca in the Murray River. There are not thought to be any in rivers along the Portland Coast.

In Queensland, they are plentiful along eastward-flowing rivers south of Cooktown right down to the New South Wales border. They have also been reported in the headwaters of three of the five river systems which feed the Murray-Darling Basin in the upper reaches. They are not known in any of the waterways which flow into the Gulf of Carpentaria.