IRMNG - Lontra Gray, 1843

IRMNG taxon details

Lontra Gray, 1843

IRMNG_ID

1117330 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1117330)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Mustelidae Fischer, 1817

Synonymised names

Latax Gray, 1843 · unaccepted

Lataxia Gervais, 1855 · unaccepted

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Species Lontra canadensis Schreber, 1777
Species Lontra felina (Molina, 1782)
Species Lontra longicaudis (Olfers, 1818)
Species Lontra provocax Thomas, 1908

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 11
page(s): 118 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Lontra Gray, 1843. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1117330 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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original description Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 11
page(s): 118 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record SN2000/Wilson & Reeder, 1993 [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source SN2000/Wilson & Reeder, 1993 [details]

name verified source Nomenclator Zoologicus - Misspelling [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

extant flag source SN2000/Wilson & Reeder, 1993, PaleoDB [details]

habitat flag source web search (AJR) [details]

original description (of Latax Gray, 1843) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 11
page(s): 119 [details]

original description (of Lataxia Gervais, 1855) Hist. Nat. Mamm., 2
page(s): 118 [details]

From other sources

Descriptive info Includes marine species (Aphia 2006) [details]

Habitat Marine and nonmarine [details]

Nomenclatural status orthographia [details]

Type species as cited Lutra canadensis Gray, 1843 ( = Lutra canadensis Shreber, 1777). [details]

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