| Siamogale | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
| Genus: | †Siamogale Ginsburg, Ingavat & Tassy, 1983 |
| Species | |
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Siamogale is anextinctgenus of giantotter from theLate Miocene toEarly Pliocene of eastern Asia. Threespecies are currentlyknown,S. thailandica andS. bounosa fromThailand andS. melilutra fromChina.[1]
Analysis of the functionalmorphology of thepostcranium ofS. melilutra suggests that it occupied a similarecological niche to the present dayAonyx: a shoreline forager that often moved about on land. It would have been more inhibited bydrag when moving throughwater relative to other otters.[2]
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