Lontra
| Lontra | |
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| North American river otters | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
| Genus: | Lontra Gray, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Lutra canadensis Schreber, 1777 | |
| Species | |
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L. canadensis | |
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| Lontra range | |
Lontra is a genus of otters from the Americas.[1]
The genus comprises four living and one known fossil species:
- North American river otter (Lontra canadensis)
- southern river otter (Lontra provocax)
- Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis)
- marine otter (Lontra felina)
- † Lontra weiri[2]
These species were previously included in the genus Lutra, together with the Eurasian otter, but they have now been moved to a separate genus.
References
- ↑ Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Prassack, K.A. (July 2016). "Lontra weiri, sp. nov., a Pliocene river otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae) from the Hagerman Fossil Beds (Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument), Idaho, USA". Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology. 36 (4): e1149075. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1149075. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
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