Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin 1788)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 605

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11345323

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scientific name

Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin 1788)
status

 

Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin 1788) View in CoL

[Lutra] brasiliensis Gmelin 1788 View in CoL , in: Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., Vol. 1: 93.

Type Locality: "in fluviis americae meridionalis"; Cabrera (1957:274) restricted to "rió São Francisco, en la orilla correspondiente al estado de Alagoas ", Brazil.

Vernacular Names: Giant Otter.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Pteronura brasiliensis subsp. brasiliensis Gmelin 1788

Subspecies Pteronura brasiliensis subsp. paraguensis Schinz 1821

Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: See lengthy comments by Harris (1968) concerning the correct identity of the type, the confusion in published synonomies, and the type locality. Synonyms allocated according to Cabrera (1957).

ESA

Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Mustelidae

Genus

Pteronura

Loc

Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin 1788)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Lutra] brasiliensis

Gmelin 1788: 93
1788
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