Lontra
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| North American river otters | |
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| Genus: | Lontra Gray, 1843
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| Lutra canadensis Schreber, 1777
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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. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "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. July 2016. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1149075.
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