Taxonavigation

Familia: Mustelidae
Subfamilia: Lutrinae
Genus: Lontra
Species: Lontra canadensis
Subspecies: L. c. canadensis – L. c. kodiacensis – L. c. lataxina – L. c. mira – L. c. pacifica – L. c. periclyzomae – L. c. sonora

Name

Lontra canadensis (Schreber, 1777)

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".

References

• Schreber, J.C.D. 1776. Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 3(18): pl. 126.B [1776], see also text: 3(26): 457, 588 (index) [1777]). (First occurrence of name on p. 588).
• Sergie Larivière and Lyle R. Walton, 1998. Lontra canadiensis, Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammologists, No. 587, pp. 1–8, 3 figs.
• Lontra canadensis in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• IUCN: Lontra canadiensis (Schreber, 1777) (Least Concern)
• Lontra canadiensis (Schreber, 1777) – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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