Lutra (Lutrogale)

Lutra (Lutrogale)
	Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Mustelidae
Genus:	Lutra
Subgenus:	Lutrogale; (Gray, 1865)
Type species
	Lutra perspicillata;
	Distribution of smooth-coated otter

Lutrogale is a subgenus, originally proposed as a genus by John Edward Gray in 1865, for otters with a convex forehead and nose, using the smooth-coated otter L. perspicillata as type species.^[1]

The following extinct and fossil species are included:

L. cretensis – Cretan otter^[2]
L. palaeoleptonyx^[3]
L. robusta^[3]

References

↑ Gray, J. E. (1865). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. January 1865: 100–154.
↑ Willemsen, G. F. (1980). "Comparative study of the functional morphology of some Lutrinae especially Lutra lutra, Lutrogale perspicillata and the Pleistocene Isolalutra cretensis". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 83 (3): 289–326.
1 2 Willemsen, G. F. (1986). "Lutrogale palaeoleptonyx(Dubois, 1908), a fossil otter from Java in the Dubois collection". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 89: 195–200.

[1] Gray, J. E. (1865). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. January 1865: 100–154.

[Willemsen1980-2] Willemsen, G. F. (1980). "Comparative study of the functional morphology of some Lutrinae especially Lutra lutra, Lutrogale perspicillata and the Pleistocene Isolalutra cretensis". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 83 (3): 289–326.

[Willemsen1986-3] 1 2 Willemsen, G. F. (1986). "Lutrogale palaeoleptonyx(Dubois, 1908), a fossil otter from Java in the Dubois collection". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 89: 195–200.

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