Otter

Otter; Temporal range: Middle Miocene tae present
	Eurasie otter (Lutra lutra)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Faimily:	Mustelidae
Subfaimily:	Lutrinae; Bonaparte, 1838
Teep genus
	Lutra; Brünnich, 1771
Genera
	Amblonyx; Aonyx; Enhydra; Hydrictis; Lontra; Lutra; Lutrogale; Pteronura ; †Enhydriodon; †Algarolutra ; †Cyrnaonyx ; †Megalenhydris ; †Sardolutra ; †Siamogale ; †Teruelictis; †Enhydritherium; †Lartetictis; †Limnonyx; †Lutravus; †Sivaonyx; †Torolutra; †Tyrrhenolutra; †Vishnuonyx

An otter is ony o 13 livin species o semiaquatic (or in the case o the sea otter, aquatic) mammals that feed on fish an shellfish, an an aa ither invertebrates, amphibians, birds an smaa mammals.

The otter subfaimily Lutrinae fairms pairt o the faimily Mustelidae, which an aa includes weasels, badgers, wolverines, an polecats.

References

↑ Koepfli KP, Deere KA, Slater GJ, et al. (2008). "Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation". BMC Biol. 6: 4–5. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-6-10. PMC 2276185. PMID 18275614.
↑ Geraads, Denis; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Bobe, René; Reed, Denné (2011). "Enhydriodon dikikae, sp. nov. (Carnivora: Mammalia), a gigantic otter from the Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (2): 447–453. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.550356.
↑ "The Bear Otter".

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