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Enhydra lutris (sea otter)
Taxonomy
Mustela lutris was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Latax lutris by Thomas (1911); it was recombined as Enhydra lutris by Fleming (1822), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning (1976), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Willemsen (1992), Wilson and Reeder (1993) and Cherin et al. (2016).
It was recombined as Latax lutris by Thomas (1911); it was recombined as Enhydra lutris by Fleming (1822), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning (1976), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Willemsen (1992), Wilson and Reeder (1993) and Cherin et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Mustela lutris Linnaeus p. 45 |
| 1822 | Enhydra lutris Fleming |
| 1911 | Latax lutris Thomas p. 138 |
| 1963 | Enhydra lutris Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1976 | Enhydra lutris Repenning p. 312 |
| 1980 | Enhydra lutris Kurten and Anderson p. 160 |
| 1992 | Enhydra lutris Willemsen p. 115 |
| 1993 | Enhydra lutris Wilson and Reeder |
| 2016 | Enhydra lutris Cherin et al. p. 100 figs. Fig. 9 |
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Enhydra lutris Linnaeus 1758 [sea otter]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available