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Lontra canadensis

Lontra canadensis

North American river otter(+1)·(Schreber, 1777)

GBIF:155304228

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PROFILE

Species Profile

Habitat

Marine Freshwater

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(2)

Gulf of Maine
North West Atlantic

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions.

engNorth American river otterengengriver ottereng

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide.

engNorth American river otter
eng
Source: Mammal Species of the World. 3rd edition
engriver otter
eng
Source: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

IDENTIFIERS

External Identifiers(1)

To GenBank (75875 nucleotides; 48419 proteins)

NCBI:txid76717

UNKNOWN

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CITATIONS

References(4)

  • 1

    Animal Diversity Web. <em>University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.</em>

    additional source
  • 2

    Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p.

    additional source
  • 3

    Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1).

  • 4

    Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (1993). Mammal species of the world. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em>

    basis of record
  • Source Information

    World Register of Marine Species

    World Register of Marine Species

    checklist

    An authoritative classification and catalogue of marine names. To obtain a full copy, please go to https://www.marinespecies.org/usersrequest.php

    WoRMS Editorial Board (2026). World Register of Marine Species. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.14284/170 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-16.

    CC BYPublished 6/1/2026View dataset
    GBIF Usage Key
    155304228
    Dataset Key
    2d59e5db-57ad-41ff-97d6-11f5fb264527
    Origin
    source
    Backbone Key
    2433727
    Taxon ID
    urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159017
    Last Crawled
    6/4/2026
    Last Interpreted
    6/4/2026