Lutra lutra
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Lutra
Lutra lutra

description: <i>Lutra lutra</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:45. TYPE LOCALITY: "Europae aquis dulcibus, fluviis, flagnis, piscinis," subsequently restricted by Thomas (1911a) to " Upsala " (Sweden). DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia (excl. tundra and desert): Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Laos, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, republics of the former USSR, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Vulnerable as <i>L.</i> <i>I. lutra.</i> SYNONYMS: <i>amurensis</i> Dybowski, 1922; <i>angustifrons</i> Lataste, 1885; <i>aureventer</i> Blyth, 1863; <i>aurobrunneus</i> Hodgson, 1839; <i>baicalensis</i> Dybowski, 1922; <i>barang</i> F. G. Cuvier, 1823; <i>ceylonica</i> Pohle, 1920; <i>chinensis</i> Gray, 1837; <i>fluviatilis</i> Leach, 1816; <i>hanensis</i> Matschie, 1907; <i>indica</i> Gray, 1837; <i>intermedia</i> Pohle, 1920; <i>japonica</i> Nehring, 1887; <i>kamtschatica</i> Dybowski, 1922; <i>kutab</i> Schinz, 1844; <i>murinus</i> Billberg, 1827; <i>meridonalis</i> Ognev, 1931; <i>monticolus</i> Hodgson, 1839; <i>nair</i> F. G. Cuvier, 1823; <i>nepalensis</i> Gray, 1865; <i>nippon</i> Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki, 1989; <i>nudipes</i> Melchior, 1834; <i>oxiana</i> Birula, 1915; <i>piscatoria</i> Kerr, 1792; <i>roensis</i> Ogilby, 1834; <i>seistanica</i> Birula, 1912; <i>sinensis</i> Trouessart, 1897; <i>splendida</i> Cabrera, 1906; <i>stejnegeri</i> Goldman, 1936; <i>vulgaris</i> Erxleben, 1777; <i>whiteleyi</i> Gray, 1867. COMMENTS: Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki (1989) considered Japanese otters a distinct species (L. <i>nippon).</i>
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 312, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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