Lutra canadensis   (Schreber, 1777)

American river otter
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Carnivora | Mustelidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic; freshwater.  Temperate

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Western Atlantic and Pacific Ocean: Lutra canadensis kodiacensis: Kodiak Islands, Alaska; Lutra canadensis periclyzomae: British Columbia; Lutra canadensis mira: Alaska, British Columbia; Lutra canadensis pacifica: Alaska, Canada, northern USA, south to central California, northern Nevada, and northeast Utah; Lutra canadensis canadensis: Eastern Canada, USA, Newfoundland; Lutra canadensis sonora: USA, Mexico, Lutra canadensis lataxina: USA; Lutra canadensis annectens: from Mexico, south through Central America and South America west of the Andes as far as Peru; Lutra canadensis enudris: Northern South America, throughout the Amazon Basin and rivers of eastern Brazil, Argentina, Trinidad Is; Lutra canadensis longicaudis: Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay; Lutra canadensis provocax: Chile, Argentina (Ref. 1522).

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Rice, D.W. 1998. (Ref. 1522)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 01 June 2014

CITES status (Ref. 108899)


CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

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Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.