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Lutrogale perspicillata (Smooth-coated Otter; sea otter)

Synonyms: Lutra perspicillata

Wikipedia Abstract

The smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a species of otter, the only extant representative of the genus Lutrogale. The species is found in most of the Indian Subcontinent and eastwards to Southeast Asia, with a disjunct population in Iraq. As its name indicates, the fur of this species is smoother and shorter than that of other otters.
View Wikipedia Record: Lutrogale perspicillata

Infraspecies

Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli
Lutrogale perspicillata perspicillata (Smooth-coated otter)
Lutrogale perspicillata sindica (Smooth-coated otter) (Attributes)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Lutrogale perspicillata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
40
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.19
EDGE Score: 3.36
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Gestation [2]  63 days
Litter Size [2]  5
Maximum Longevity [4]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  31 inches (80 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools
Adult Weight [2]  19.842 lbs (9.00 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  30 %
Diet - Endothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Fish [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  2 years 7 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

Prey / Diet

Trichopodus pectoralis (Three-spot gurammy)[5]

Predators

Crocodylus porosus (Saltwater crocodile)[6]

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
♦ 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
♦ 5Lutrogale perspicillata, Yeen Ten Hwang and Serge Larivière, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 786, pp. 1-4 (2005)
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
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