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Lutra (otter)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Taxonomy
Lutra was named by Brisson (1762) [conserved in ICZN Opinion 1894; see also ICZN opinion 1998 based on Wilson and Reeder 1993, all North American records of this genus are actually Lontra]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Mustela (Lutra) by Kerr (1792).

It was assigned to Mustela by Kerr (1792); to Mustelina by Gray (1825); to Lutrini by Willemsen (1992), Baskin (1998) and Pickford (2007); to Mustelidae by Brisson (1762), Leidy (1873), Kurten (1968), Carroll (1988), Vidal (1991), Geraads (1997), Werdelin and Peigne (2010) and Koretsky and Domning (2014); and to Lutrinae by Hay (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Marmi et al. (2004), Cherin (2017) and Law et al. (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1762Lutra Brisson
1792Mustela (Lutra) Kerr
1805Lutris Dumeril
1815Lutrix Rafinesque
1825Lutra Gray p. 339
1855Lataxina Gervais
1865Barangia Gray
1865Hydrogale Gray
1865Latax Gray
1865Nutria Gray
1867Lutronectes Gray
1873Lutra Leidy p. 316
1902Lutra Hay p. 768
1935Nesolutra Bate
1968Lutra Kurten p. 105
1977Nesolutra Malatesta
1980Lutra Kurten and Anderson p. 158
1988Lutra Carroll
1991Lutra Vidal p. 6
1992Lutra Willemsen p. 12
1997Lutra Geraads p. 153
1998Lutra Baskin p. 161
2004Lutra Marmi et al. p. 492
2007Lutra Pickford p. 122 figs. Fig. 23
2010Lutra Werdelin and Peigne p. 620
2014Lutra Koretsky and Domning p. 227
2017Lutra Cherin p. 435
2018Lutra 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
genusLutra

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. Lutra Brisson 1762 [otter]
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Subg. †Lutra (Satherium) Gazin 1934
Lutra affinis Gervais 1859
Lutra brachygnathus Schlosser 1903
Lutra bravardi Pomel 1843
Lutra bressana Deperet 1893
Lutra castiglionis Pereira and Salotti 2000
Lutra fatimazohrae Geraads 1997
Lutra franconica Quenstedt 1885
Lutra hessica Lydekker 1890
Lutra licenti Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930
Lutra lutra Linnaeus 1758 [European otter]
Lutra lybica Stromer 1914
Lutra nippon Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki 1989 [Japanese otter]
Lutra palaeoleptonyx Falconer 1868
Lutra simplicidens Thenius 1965
Lutra sumatrana Gray 1865
Invalid names: Barangia Gray 1865 [synonym], Hydrogale Gray 1865 [synonym], Latax Gray 1865 [synonym], Lataxina Gervais 1855 [synonym], Lutris Dumeril 1805 [synonym], Lutrix Rafinesque 1815 [synonym], Lutronectes Gray 1867 [synonym], Nesolutra Bate 1935 [synonym], Nutria Gray 1865 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available