| Lutrogale | |
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| Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
| Genus: | Lutrogale (Gray, 1865) |
| Type species | |
| Lutra perspicillata | |
| 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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