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
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

The genus also contains the following extinct and fossil species:

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

References

1. Gray, J. E. (1865). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. January 1865: 100–154.
2. Willemsen, G. F. (1980). "Comparative study of the functional morphology of some Lutrinae especially Lutra lutra, Lutrogale perspicillata and the Pleistocene Isolalutra cretensis". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 83 (3): 289–326.
3. Willemsen, G. F. (1986). "Lutrogale palaeoleptonyx(Dubois, 1908), a fossil otter from Java in the Dubois collection". Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen B. 89: 195–200.