SYNOPSIS OF THE 



Lutra Inunguis, F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxvii. 



Icon. 



Inhab. Cape of Good Hope. 



Obs. Deference for the highly respectable zoologist, who 

 .has treated these several otters as distinct, obliges us 

 to separate them specifically ; otherwise we should have 

 been inclined to say merely, and judging from description* 

 alone, that America produces several varieties of the otter. 



368. 9. L. Leptonyx (Javanese Otter.) Shining fulvous 

 brown; throat dull yellow; tail less than half the body; 

 claws short, blunt, nearly laminar. 



Lutra Leptonyx, Horsfield, Java, vii. L. Barang. F. ; 

 Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxvii. ? Mustela Lutra, Marsden, Su- '- 

 matra, 113? 



Welingsang, or Wargul, Javanesse. Angingayer, Malay. 

 Simung, Sumatresse, Raffies. Lin. Trans, xiii. Anzing 

 Ager, Marsden, Sumatra, 1 13. Gryze Otter, Wurm. Batav. 

 Soc. Trans, ii. 457. 



Icon. Horsf. Java, t. Marden, Sumatra, t. 12, 13 ? 

 Inhabits Java, Sumatra ? 



IV. Enhydra. Fleming. Cutting teeth, ^; cheek teeth, 

 II ; false molares, |-|. Body very long. Hind legs and 

 tail short. 



This subgenus, of Fleming, is intermediate between the 

 otter and the seals, both in the number of its teeth and 

 form of its body and feet. The character of the cutting 

 teeth is from the specimen in the British Museum. 



369. 1. £. Mmwa (Sea Otter.) Chestnut brown. 

 Mustela Lutris, Lin. Sys. Nat. i. 66. Lutra Marina, 



Erxleb. Enhydra Marina, Fleming, Phil. Zool. 



Sea Otter, Cook's Voyages. Menzies and Home, Phil. 

 Trans. 1796. Lutra Marina, or Sea Otter, Steller. Nov. 



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