Lutrogale
Genus of carnivores
title: "Lutrogale" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["otters", "carnivoran-genera", "mammal-genera-with-one-living-species", "taxa-named-by-john-edward-gray"] description: "Genus of carnivores" topic_path: "general/otters" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutrogale" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Genus of carnivores ::
| image = 2006-kabini-otter.jpg | image_caption = Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) | taxon = Lutrogale | authority = (Gray, 1865) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = | type_species = Lutra perspicillata | range_map = Smooth-coated Otter area.png | range_map_caption = Distribution of smooth-coated otter
Lutrogale was proposed as generic name by John Edward Gray in 1865 for otters with a convex forehead and nose, using the smooth-coated otter L. perspicillata as type species.
The genus also contains the following extinct and fossil species:
- L. cretensis – Cretan otter
- L. palaeoleptonyx
- L. robusta
References
References
- (1865). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
- (1980). "Comparative study of the functional morphology of some Lutrinae especially ''Lutra lutra'', ''Lutrogale perspicillata'' and the Pleistocene ''Isolalutra cretensis''". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B.
- (1986). "''Lutrogale palaeoleptonyx''(Dubois, 1908), a fossil otter from Java in the Dubois collection". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B.
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