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SPECIES Lontra canadensis

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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SUBSPECIES canadensis

SUBSPECIES kodiacensis

SUBSPECIES lataxina

SUBSPECIES mira

SUBSPECIES pacifica

SUBSPECIES periclyzomae

SUBSPECIES sonora

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