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Diet of the smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata (Geoffroy, 1826) at natural and modified sites in Singapore

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Theng, Meryl, Sivasothi, N., Tan, Heok Hui (2016): Diet of the smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata (Geoffroy, 1826) at natural and modified sites in Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 290-301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5355426

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