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Lutrogale

Genus of carnivores

Genus of carnivores

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

  1. (1865). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
  2. (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.
  3. (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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