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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Mustelidae
--> SUBFAMILY Lutrinae
--> GENUS Pteronura
SPECIES Pteronura brasiliensis
| Author: | Gmelin, 1788. | | Citation: | In Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1: 93. | | Common Name: | Giant Otter | | Type Locality: | "in fluviis americae meridionalis"; Cabrera (1957:274) restricted to "rió São Francisco, en la orilla correspondiente al estado de Alagoas", Brazil. | | Distribution: | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | See lengthy comments by Harris (1968) concerning the correct identity of the type, the confusion in published synonomies, and the type locality. Synonyms allocated according to Cabrera (1957). |
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