Enhydra Fleming, 1822 . Philos. Zool., 2:187.
TYPE SPECIES: Mustela lutris Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987).
SYNONYMS: Enydris Lichtenstein, 1827; Latax Gloger, 1827; Sutra Elliot, 1874 .