Smooth-coated Otter – Lutrogale perspicillata

Lutrogale perspicillataI. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

Pocock (1941a), van Zyll de Jong (1972), and Davis (1978) placed perspicillata in the monotypic Lutrogale, considered a subgenus by Pohle (1920a); see comments under Lutra. Van Zyll de Jong's (1987) analysis placed as sister groups L. maculicollis and L. lutra+L. sumatrana. Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.