Lutra nippon Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki 1989

Lutra nippon Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki 1989, Bull. Nat. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, ser. A, 15 (3): 178.

Type Locality: "Nenokubi Seaside, Shimoda, Nakamura City, Kôchi Prefecture." .

Vernacular Names: Japanese Otter.

Distribution: Formerly widely distributed in Japan, now probably extinct. May now only exist on Shikoku Isl (Abe et al., 1997).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II.

Discussion: Distinctiveness of the Japanese otter was supported by Suzuki et al. (1996 b).