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Genus of carnivores
Lontra is a
genus of
otters from the
Americas .
[1]
Species
These species were previously included in the genus
Lutra , together with the
Eurasian otter , but they have now been moved to a separate genus.
The genus comprises four living and one known fossil species:
Extant species
Extinct species
References
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Lontra .
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a
b
Wozencraft, W. C. (2005).
"Order Carnivora" . In
Wilson, D. E. ; Reeder, D. M. (eds.).
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8018-8221-0 .
OCLC
62265494 .
^ Prassack, K.A. (July 2016). "Lontra weiri , sp. nov., a Pliocene river otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae) from the Hagerman Fossil Beds (Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument), Idaho, USA". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 36 (4): e1149075.
doi :
10.1080/02724634.2016.1149075 .
S2CID
87404097 .