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Lontra canadensis

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Lontra canadensis (Schreber 1777)

[Mustela] lutra Schreber 1777, Die Saugethiere, Vol. 3, 18: pl. 126. B [1776], see also text: 3 (26): 457, 588 (index) [1777]). (First occurance of name on pg. 588).

Type Locality: "Der Fischotter...Europa überall gemein... Einwohner des nordlichen Theils von Asien, bis nach Kamatschatka hinaus, und...Persian hinunter, und von Nordamerika." Miller (1912b:113) listed the type locality as "Eastern Canada ".

Vernacular Names: North American River Otter.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Lontra canadensis subsp. canadensis Schreber 1777

Subspecies Lontra canadensis subsp. kodiacensis Goldman 1935

Subspecies Lontra canadensis subsp. lataxina Cuvier 1823

Subspecies Lontra canadensis subsp. mira Goldman 1935

Subspecies Lontra canadensis subsp. pacifica J. A. Allen 1898

Subspecies Lontra canadensis subsp. periclyzomae Elliot 1905

Subspecies Lontra canadensis subsp. sonora Rhoads 1898

Distribution: Canada, USA (except for arid SW desert regions), USA (historical distributions of Alaska and most of contiguous 48 states exclusive of the Central Plains).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Larivière and Walton (1998). Synonyms allocated according to Hall (1981), and Larivière and Walton (1998).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 603, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E69BF2968277AF6992A8FF32E9D4E7ED (URL)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schreber
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Lontra
Species
canadensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lontra canadensis (Schreber, 1777) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Schreber, J. C. D. 1777. Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen 1776 - 1778. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 3: 377 - 440, pls. 104 B, 107 Aa, 109 B, 110 B, 115 B, 125 B, 127 B, 136, 146 A.
  • Miller, G. S., Jr. 1912 b. List of North American land mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 79: 1 - 455.
  • Goldman, E. A. 1935. New American mustelids of the genera Martes, Gulo, and Lutra. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 48: 175 - 186.
  • Allen, J. A. 1898. Revision of the chickarees, or North American red squirrels (subgenus Tamiasciurus). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 10: 249 - 298.
  • Elliot, D. G. 1905. A checklist of mammals of the North American continent, the West Indies and the neighboring seas. Field Columbian Museum, Publication 105, Zoological Series, 6: 1 - 761.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.