Lutrogale

<i>Lutrogale</i>

Lutrogale

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.[1]

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The genus also contains the following extinct and fossil species:

References

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  1. [1]
    Gray, J. E. (1865). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. January 1865: 100–154.
  2. [2]
    Willemsen, G. F. (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. 83 (3): 289–326.
  3. [3]
    Willemsen, G. F. (1986). "Lutrogale palaeoleptonyx(Dubois, 1908), a fossil otter from Java in the Dubois collection". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 89: 195–200.
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