Lutra nippon Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki 1989

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Lutra nippon Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki 1989 View in CoL , 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).

References

Abe, H., N. Ishii, Y. Kaneko, K. Maeda, S. Miura, and M. Yoneda. 1997. [A pictorial guide to the mammals of Japan.] Tokyo: Tokai University Press. Second ed. 195 pp. (in Japanese).

Imaizumi, Y., and M. Yoshiyuki. 1989. Taxonomic status of the Japanese otter (Carnivora, Mustelidae), with a description of a new species. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, ser. A (Zoology) 15 (3): 177 - 188.

Suzuki, T., H. Yuasa, and Y. Machida. 1996 b. Phylogenetic position of the Japanese river otter Lutra nippon inferred from the nucleotide sequence of 224 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Zoological Science (Tokyo), 13: 621 - 626.