210 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 

 Family MUSTELIDAE. 



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Subfamily LUTRINAE. 



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Genus LATAX Gloger. 



1827. Latax GLOGER, Nova acta phys. med. acad. caes. Leop.- 

 Carol., xm, pt. n, p. 511. Type. Lutra marina ERXLEBEN = 

 Mustela lutris LINNAEUS. 



* Latax lutris (Linnaeus) . 



1758. [Mustela] lutris LINNAEUS, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 45. 

 1885. Enhydris lutris TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vn (1884), 



p. 609. 1885. 

 1885. Latax lutris STEJNEGER, Deutsch. geograph. blatter, 



vin, p. 253. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Coasts of Bering Sea. 



Genus LUTRA Brisson. 



1762. Lutra BRISSON, Regn. anim., n ed., p. 201. Type. 

 Lutra BRISSON = Mustela lutra LINNAEUS. 



According to Trouessart (Catal. mamm., pt. in, p. 453, 1897) 

 the terms applied to genera by Brisson are monomial specific 

 names without status in the Linnaean binomial system of nomen- 

 clature. If this view be adopted the generic name Lutra was 

 first used by Erxleben (Syst. regni anim., i, p. 445, 1777, type Lu- 

 tra vulgaris Erxleben = Mustela lutra Linnaeus) . 



* Lutra annectens Major. 



1885. Lutra felina and Lutra brasiliensis TRUE, Proc. U. S. 

 nat. mus., vn (1884), p. 609. 1885. 



