Otter
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.
| Otter Temporal range: Middle Miocene tae present[1]
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| Eurasie otter (Lutra lutra) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Faimily: | Mustelidae |
| Subfaimily: | Lutrinae Bonaparte, 1838 |
| Teep genus | |
| Lutra Brünnich, 1771
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Amblonyx | |
The otter subfaimily Lutrinae fairms pairt o the faimily Mustelidae, which an aa includes weasels, badgers, wolverines, an polecats.
References
eedit- ↑ 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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