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Enhydra Fleming, 1822 
AphiaID: 242597

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Mustelidae (Family) > Lutrinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Lutrinae
Source  basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

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[hide all]		 Species Enhydra lutris (Linnaeus, 1758)
  » Subspecies Enhydra lutris kenyoni Wilson, 1991
» Subspecies Enhydra lutris lutris (Linnaeus, 1758)
» Subspecies Enhydra lutris nereis (Merriam, 1904)
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:242597
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-07-16 21:05:52Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-12-26 22:05:46Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-05-20 10:05:06Z  changed  Churchill, Morgan
2010-05-20 10:09:49Z  checked  Berta, Annalisa
  
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  Citation: Berta, A.; Churchill, M. (2013). Enhydra Fleming, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=242597 on 2013-05-22
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