Lutrogale
| Lutrogale | |
|---|---|
| Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
| Genus: | Lutrogale (Gray, 1865) |
| Type species | |
| Lutra perspicillata | |
| 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.
The genus also contains the following extinct and fossil species:
- L. cretensis – Cretan otter
- L. palaeoleptonyx
- L. robusta