| Lutrogale | |
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| Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
| Genus: | Lutrogale (Gray, 1865) |
| Type species | |
| Lutra perspicillata | |
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| Distribution of smooth-coated otter | |
Lutrogale was proposed as generic name by John Edward Gray in 1865 for otters with a convex forehead and nose, using the smooth-coated otter L. perspicillata as type species.[1]
The genus also contains the following extinct and fossil species:
- L. cretensis – Cretan otter[2]
- L. palaeoleptonyx[3]
- L. robusta[3]
- ^ Gray, J. E. (1865). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. January 1865: 100–154.
- ^ Willemsen, G. F. (1980). "Comparative study of the functional morphology of some Lutrinae especially Lutra lutra, Lutrogale perspicillata and the Pleistocene Isolalutra cretensis". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 83 (3): 289–326.
- ^ a b Willemsen, G. F. (1986). "Lutrogale palaeoleptonyx(Dubois, 1908), a fossil otter from Java in the Dubois collection". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 89: 195–200.