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Type Locality. — La Vega, on mainland coast opposite Isla Cancun, northeastern 

 Quintana Roo, Mexico. Range. — Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and Guatemala; 

 limits of range undetermined. 



Conepatus semistriatus trichurus Thomas 

 1902. Conepatus mapurito Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 39, p. 48, 



April 1902. (Not of Gmelin.) 

 1905. Conepatus tropicalis trichurus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 



vol. 15, p. 585, June 1905. 

 1951. Conepatus semistriatus trichurus Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago 



Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, p. 562, July 10, 1951. 

 Type Locality. — Boquete, Volcan de Chiriqui, Chiriqui, Panama Range. — 

 Western Panama and Costa Rica (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 87, p. 436, 1946). 



Subfamily lutrinae (otters) 

 Genus LUTRA 2 Brisson 

 1762. Lutra Brisson, Regnum animale . . . , ed. 2, p. 201. (Type, Lutra 



Brisson = M ustela lutra Linnaeus.) 

 1772. Lutra Briinnich Zoologiae Fundamenta . . . , p. 42. (Type, 

 "Odderen"= M ustela lutra Linnaeus.) 



Lutra canadensis canadensis (Schreber)* 



1776. Mustela lutra canadensis, Schreber, Die Saugthiere . . . , Theil 3, Heft 

 18, pi. 126b. 



1823. Lutra canadensis Sabine, in Franklin, Narrative of a journey to the 

 shores of the Polar Sea in . . . 1819-22, p. 653. 



1863. Lutra destructor Barnstonf, Canadian Nat. Geol., vol. 8, No. 2, p. 152, 

 April 1863. (Michipicoten Island, Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada.) 



1884. Lutra canadensis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, (App., Circ. 29), 

 p. 609, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Eastern Canada ( = Province of Quebec). Range. — Formerly 

 widely distributed in all parts of eastern Canada south of central Quebec that are 

 well forested and watered, and still exists sporadically in many settled districts 

 from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, to western Ontario (Anderson, Nat. Mus. 

 Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 69 (Jan. 24, 1947) ; south to Connecticut (Good- 

 win, Connecticut Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 53, p. 72, 1935), streams and lakes 

 of higher mountains of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Rhoads, The mammals of 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey, . . ., p. 157, 1903), and in Appalachian Moun- 

 tains to northern Georgia; and from northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michi- 

 gan (Burt, Mammals of Michigan, p. 148, 1946) south to Tennessee and Alabama 

 (A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 45, p. 40, Oct. 28, 1921) ; intergrading 

 with preblei in east-central Manitoba (Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 48, p. 179, Nov. 15, 1935). 



* Revised by H. Pohle, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 85, Abt. A, No. 9, pp. 1-247, December 1920. 

 Brisson's Regnum animale . . , , regarded as non-Linnaean and not consistently binomial by 

 Hopwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 117, pts. 2-3, pp. 534, 535, Oct. 30, 1947. See also 

 Hershkovitz, Proc. BioL Soc. Washington, vol. 62, p. 12, Mar. 17, 1939. 



