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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Mustelidae
--> SUBFAMILY Lutrinae
--> GENUS Lutrogale
SPECIES Lutrogale perspicillata
| Author: | I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826. | | Citation: | In Bory de Saint-Vincent, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. Paris., 9: 519. | | Common Name: | Smooth-coated Otter | | Type Locality: | "Sumatra" [Indonesia]. | | Distribution: | Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan), Iraq, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Pocock (1941a), van Zyll de Jong (1972), and Davis (1978) placed perspicillata in the monotypic Lutrogale, considered a subgenus by Pohle (1920a); see comments under Lutra. Van Zyll de Jong's (1987) analysis placed as sister groups L. maculicollis and L. lutra+L. sumatrana. Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). |
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