,^ PUTORIUS. LUTRA. 433 



a. Putorius tropicaJis perdus Merriam. 



Putorius tropicalis perdus Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xv, 1902, 

 p. 67. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Arner. & W. Indies, F. C. M. 

 Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 531. Zool. Ser. 

 Teapa Weasel. 



Type locality. Teapa, State of Tabasco, Mexico. 

 Geogr. Distr. Known only from the type locality. 



1048. Putorius af finis (Gray). 



Mustela afjinis Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., xiv, 1874, 



P- 375- 

 Putorius afjinis Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. 



Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 534. Zool. Ser. 

 Allied Weasel. Collaraja in Costa Rica. 

 Type locality. Colombia. 

 Geogr. Distr. Costa Rica south into South America. 



Subfamily III. Lutrinee. 

 Genus 131. Lutra. Otters. 



Lutra Briss., Regn. Anim., 2d ed., 1762, p. 201. Type Mustela lutra 

 Linnaeus. 

 Lataxina Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, pp. xxi, 70. 

 Lataxia Gerv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., 11, 1855, p. 118. 



1049. Lutra canadensis (Schreber). 



Mustela lutra canadensis Schreb., Saugth., 1776, pi. cxxvi B; 



Text, 1778. 

 Mustela {Lutra) canadensis Kerr, Anim. Kingd.. 1792, No. 337. 

 Lutra hudsonica F. Cuv., Suppl. Buffon, i, 183 1, p. 194. 

 Lutra canadensis Aud. & Bachm., N. Am. Quad., in, 1853, p. 9,7, 

 pi. cxxii (Lataxina mollis Gray). Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 

 F. C. M. Pub., II, 1901, p. 352. Zool. Ser. 

 Canada Otter. 



Type locality. Eastern Canada. Exact locality unknown. 

 Geogr. Distr. Eastern North America, north of North Carolina 

 on the Atlantic coast. 



a. Ljitra canadensiff Inffixitui (F. Cuvier). 



Lutra lataxina F. Cuv., Diet. Scien. Nat., xxvii, 1823, p. 242. 

 Lutra canadensis lataxina Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 

 Pub., II, 1901, p. 352. Zool. Ser. 



