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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Mustelidae
--> SUBFAMILY Lutrinae
--> GENUS Lontra
--> SPECIES canadensis
SUBSPECIES Lontra canadensis 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). | | 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". | |
| | Synonyms:
americana (Wyman, 1847)
chimo (Anderson, 1945)
degener (Bangs, 1898)
destructor (Barnston, 1863)
hudsonica (Desmarest, 1803)
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