Lontra

Lontra
	North American river otters (Lontra canadensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Mustelidae
Subfamily:	Lutrinae
Genus:	Lontra; Gray, 1843
Type species
	Lutra canadensis; Schreber, 1777
Species
	L. canadensis; L. felina; L. longicaudis; L. provocax; †L. weiri
	Lontra range

Lontra is a genus of otters from the Americas.[1]

Species

These species were previously included in the genus Lutra, together with the Eurasian otter, but they have now been moved to a separate genus. The genus comprises four living and one known fossil species:

Extant Species

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Lontra canadensis	North American river otter	North America
Lontra provocax	southern river otter	Chile and Argentina
Lontra longicaudis	neotropical otter	Central America, South America and the island of Trinidad
Lontra felina	marine otter	South America

Extinct species

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
†Lontra weiri	Weir's otter	Pliocene North America [2]

References

Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Prassack, K.A. (July 2016). "Lontra weiri, sp. nov., a Pliocene river otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae) from the Hagerman Fossil Beds (Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument), Idaho, USA". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (4): e1149075. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1149075.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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[MSW3-1] Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[Prassack2016-2] Prassack, K.A. (July 2016). "Lontra weiri, sp. nov., a Pliocene river otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae) from the Hagerman Fossil Beds (Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument), Idaho, USA". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (4): e1149075. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1149075.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)