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Lontra felina (Marine Otter)

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Wikipedia Abstract

(Not to be confused with sea otter.) The marine otter (Lontra felina) is a rare and poorly known South American mammal of the weasel family (Mustelidae). The scientific name means "otter cat", and in Spanish, the marine otter is also often referred to as gato marino: "marine cat". The marine otter (while spending much of its time out of the water) only lives in saltwater, coastal environments and rarely ventures into freshwater or estuarine habitats. This saltwater exclusivity is unlike most other otter species, including the almost fully aquatic sea otter (Enhydra lutris) of the northeast Pacific.
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Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Lontra felina

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
46
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.24
EDGE Score: 3.74
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Attributes

Gestation [4]  62 days
Litter Size [4]  2
Litters / Year [5]  1
Maximum Longevity [5]  3 years
Snout to Vent Length [5]  30 inches (75 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  67.462 lbs (30.60 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cabo de Hornos UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve 12092102 Chile      
Parque Nacional Laguna San Rafael National Park II 4560904 Aisén, Chile  
Santuario de la Naturaleza Pumalín Sanctuary 713364 Chile
Tierra Del Fuego National Park II 172861 Argentina

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cephalorhynchus eutropia (Chilean Dolphin)2
Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale's Dolphin)1
Otaria byronia (South American Sealion)1
Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister's Porpoise)1

Predators

Orcinus orca (Killer Whale)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Lontra felina, Serge Larivière, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 575, pp. 1-5 (1998)
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Estudio comparativo de la ecología alimentaria del depredador de alto nivel trófico Lontra felina (Molina, 1782) (Carnivora: Mustelidae) en Chile, Olivia Córdova, Jaime R. Rau, Cristián G. Suazo y Aldo Arriagada, Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía 44(2): 429-438, agosto de 2009
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0