Lutrogale perspicillata (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 605

Lutrogale perspicillata (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826)

[Lutra] perspicillata I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826 , in: Bory de Saint-Vincent, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. Paris, Vol. 9: 519.

Type Locality: " Sumatra " [ Indonesia].

Vernacular Names: Smooth-coated Otter.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Lutrogale perspicillata subsp. perspicillata I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826

Subspecies Lutrogale perspicillata subsp. sindica Pocock 1940

Distribution: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan), Iraq, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Pocock (1941 a), van Zyll de Jong (1972), and Davis (1978) placed perspicillata in the monotypic Lutrogale , considered a subgenus by Pohle (1920 a); see comments under Lutra . Van Zyll de Jong's (1987) analysis placed as sister groups L. maculicollis and L. lutra + L. sumatrana . Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).