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Lontra longicaudis (Neotropical Otter; neotropical river otter; long-tailed otter)

Synonyms: Lutra longicaudis longicaudis

Wikipedia Abstract

The neotropical otter or neotropical river otter (Lontra longicaudis) is an otter species found in Central America, South America and the island of Trinidad. It is physically similar to the northern and southern river otter, which occur directly north and south of this species' range. The length of the neotropical otter can range from 90–150 centimetres (35–59 in), of which the tail comprises about a third. Body weight ranges from 5–15 kilograms (11–33 lb). Otters are members of the family Mustelidae, the most species-rich (and therefore diverse) family in the order Carnivora.
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Infraspecies

Lontra longicaudis annectens (River otter)
Lontra longicaudis enudris (River otter)
Lontra longicaudis longicaudis (River otter)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 4.34
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Attributes

Gestation [2]  57 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Maximum Longevity [4]  15 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  28 inches (71 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  16.535 lbs (7.50 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Vertibrates [3]  10 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Leptodactylus pentadactylus (Tungara frog)[5]
Manilkara subsericea[6]
Pouteria caimito (abiu)[6]
Rana pretiosa (Oregon Spotted Frog)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Phyllostomus hastatus (greater spear-nosed bat)1
Thamnophis elegans terrestris (Western Terrestrial Garter Snake)1

Predators

Panthera onca (Jaguar)[7]

Range Map

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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
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ 6FRUIT OCCURRENCE IN THE DIET OF THE NEOTROPICAL OTTER, Lontra longicaudis, IN SOUTHERN BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC FOREST AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR SEED DISPERSION, Juliana Quadros and Emygdio L.A. Monteiro-Filho, Mastozoología Neotropical / J. Neotrop. Mammal.; 7(1):33-36
♦ 7Lontra longicaudis, Serge Larivière, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 609, pp. 1-5 (1999)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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