Lutrogale | |
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Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Mustelidae |
Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
Genus: | Lutrogale (Gray, 1865) |
Type species | |
Lutra perspicillata | |
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Distribution of smooth-coated otter |
Lutrogale was proposed as generic name byJohn Edward Gray in 1865 for otters with a convex forehead and nose, using thesmooth-coated otterL. perspicillata astype species.[1]
The genus also contains the following extinct andfossil species:
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