Lontra annectens
(Forsyth Major, 1897)
Northern Neotropical River Otter
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Carnivora |
| Suborder | : Caniformia |
| Infraorder | : Arctoidea |
| Parvorder | : Mustelida |
| Family | : Mustelidae |
| Subfamily | : Lutrinae |
| Genus | : Lontra |
Species status
Authority citation
Forsyth Major, C.I. 1897-06-01. The otter of Central America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)19(114):618-620.
Authority publication link
Original name as described
Lutra annectens
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1892.3.17.8
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
Type locality
Terro Tepic, Rio de Tepic, Jalisco, Mexico.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Mexico · Belize · Guatemala · El Salvador · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Ecuador? · Peru?
Taxonomy notes
split from L. longicaudis
Taxonomy notes citation
de Ferran, V., Vieira Figueiró, H., Silveira Trinca, C., Hernández-Romero, P.C., Lorenzana, G.P., Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, C., Koepfli, K.-P. and Eizirik, E. 2024. Genome-wide data support recognition of an additional species of Neotropical river otter (Mammalia, Mustelidae, Lutrinae). Journal of Mammalogy 105(3):534-542. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyae009
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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Names and synonyms
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