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Lutra lutra (European otter)
Taxonomy
Mustela lutra was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Lutra lutra by Hay (1902), Thomas (1911), Kurten (1968), Willemsen (1992), International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998), Marmi et al. (2004) and Cherin et al. (2016).
It was recombined as Lutra lutra by Hay (1902), Thomas (1911), Kurten (1968), Willemsen (1992), International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998), Marmi et al. (2004) and Cherin et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Mustela lutra Linnaeus p. 45 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 1902 | Lutra lutra Hay p. 768 |
| 1911 | Lutra lutra Thomas p. 138 |
| 1968 | Lutra lutra Kurten p. 107 |
| 1992 | Lutra lutra Willemsen p. 13 |
| 1998 | Lutra lutra International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature p. 65 |
| 2004 | Lutra lutra Marmi et al. p. 489 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2016 | Lutra lutra Cherin et al. p. 100 figs. Fig. 9 |
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Lutra lutra Linnaeus 1758 [European otter]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Gingerich 2003, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58800 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Germany (Thüringen) | Lutra lutra (45068) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Verona) | Lutra lutra (43653) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Lutra lutra (13293) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Lutra lutra (92787) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Norway (Sunnmore) | Lutra lutra (125317) | |
| Holocene | Netherlands | Lutra lutra (55533) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Lutra lutra (191169) | |
| Holocene | Russian Federation | Lutra lutra (171637) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom | Lutra lutra (122112) |