COMMON OTTER. 



CARNIVORA. 



167 



MUSTELAD&. 





Genus, Lutra. 

 OTTER. 



Generic Character. Body elongated and low ; feet with five toes on eacli, 

 palmated ; tail flattened horizontally ; incisive teeth , grinders f:f or jj:|; 

 tongue slightly rough ; ears small. 



COMMON OTTER. 



Lutra vulgaris. 



Specific Character. Deep brown ; throat and braast cinereous ; tail more 

 than half the length of the head and body. 



Lutra, RAT, Syn. Anim. Quad. KLEIN, de Quad. p. 91. 



Mustela lutra, LINN. Syst. Nat. XII. 1, p. 66. 



Viverra lutra, LINN. Faun. Suec. 2, p. 5. 



Lutra vulgaris, ERXLEB. Syst. p. 448. DESMAR. Mam. p. 188, sp. 289. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 16. JENTNS, Brit. Vert. p. 13. 

 Lutra Roensis, OGILBY, P.Z.S. 1834, III. 

 La Loutre, BUFFON, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 134, t. ii. 



Common Otter, PENN. Brit. Zool. I. p. 92, No. 19, t. viii. SHAW, Gen. Zool. 



I. p. 437, t. c. 



WITH the general form and aspect which characterize 

 its family, the Otter exhibits many modifications of that 



