Lutrogale

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.^[1]

Lutrogale
Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata)
Scientific classification
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

The genus also contains the following extinct and fossil species:

• L. cretensis – Cretan otter^[2]
• L. palaeoleptonyx^[3]
• L. robusta^[3]