455 



Genus 224. Latax. Sea Otters. 



Latax Glog.. Nov. Acta Phys. Med. Acad. Cses. Leop. -Carol., xiii, 



Pt. II, 1827, p. 511. Type Lutra marina Erxleben = Mttstela 



lutris Linnaeus. 

 Pusa Oken, Lehrb. der Xaturg.. Thiel. iii, 2te Abth., 1816, p. 986. 



(nee Scopoli.) 

 Enhydra Flem., Phil. Zool., 11, 1822, p. 187. (nee Enhydris 



Merrem. Rept.) 



FiG. LIX. Latax lutris. Northern Sea Otter. 



794. * Latax lutris (Lmnteus). 



Miistela lutris Linn., Syst. Xat., i, 1758, p. 45; i. 1766. p. 66. 

 Lutra marina Erxl., Syst. Reg. Anim., 1777, p. 445. 

 Pusa orientalis Oken. Lehrb. der Xaturg.. Thiel iii, 2te Abth., 

 1816, p. 986. 



* Latax lutris Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, 

 Pt. II, 1904, p. 537, Zool. Ser., (nee pi. lii,) may more properly refer to the 

 Latax lutris nereis Merr. rather than to the present species. 



