Lutrogale

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Genus of carnivores

Lutrogale
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
Distribution of smooth-coated otter

Lutrogale was proposed as generic name by John Edward Gray in 1865 for otters with a convex forehead and nose, using the smooth-coated otter L. perspicillata as type species.

The genus also contains the following extinct and fossil species:

• L. cretensis – Cretan otter
• L. palaeoleptonyx
• L. robusta

References

Wikispecies has information related to Lutrogale.

1. ^ Gray, J. E. (1865). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. January 1865: 100–154.
2. ^ Willemsen, G. F. (1980). "Comparative study of the functional morphology of some Lutrinae especially Lutra lutra, Lutrogale perspicillata and the Pleistocene Isolalutra cretensis". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 83 (3): 289–326.
3. ^ ^{a b} Willemsen, G. F. (1986). "Lutrogale palaeoleptonyx(Dubois, 1908), a fossil otter from Java in the Dubois collection". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 89: 195–200.