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Pteronura (giant otter)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Taxonomy
Pteronura was named by Gray (1837). It is extant.

It was reranked as Lutra (Pteronura) by Nehring (1900).

It was assigned to Lutra by Nehring (1900); to Lutrini by Willemsen (1992) and Pickford (2007); and to Lutrinae by Marmi et al. (2004), Prevosti and Ferrero (2008) and Law et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Pteronura Gray
1900Lutra (Pteronura) Nehring p. 221
1992Pteronura Willemsen p. 114
2004Pteronura Marmi et al. p. 492
2007Pteronura Pickford p. 122 figs. Fig. 23
2008Pteronura Prevosti and Ferrero p. 1172
2018Pteronura Law et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
Mustelida
familyMustelidaeFischer 1817
subfamilyLutrinaeBaird 1857
genusPteronuraGray 1837

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Pteronura Gray 1837 [giant otter]
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Pteronura brasiliensis Gmelin 1788 [giant otter]
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Invalid names: Lutra paranensis Rennger 1830 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available