| Author: | Schreber, 1777. |
| Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 3(18): pl. 126.B[1776], see also text:3(26):457, 588(index)[1777]). (First occurance of name on pg. 588). |
| Common Name: | North American River Otter |
| Type Locality: | "Der Fischotter ...Europa überall gemein... Einwohner des nordlichen Theils von Asien, bis nach Kamatschatka hinaus, und ...Persian hinunter, und von Nordamerika." Miller (1912b:113) listed the type locality as "Eastern Canada". |
| Distribution: | Canada, USA (except for arid SW desert regions), USA (historical distributions of Alaska and most of contiguous 48 states exclusive of the Central Plains). |
| Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). |
| Comments: | Reviewed by Larivière and Walton (1998). Synonyms allocated according to Hall (1981), and Larivière and Walton (1998). |
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