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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Lutrinae

WoRMS 255009ITIS 552326key worms:255009
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2026-08-05: itis_id 552326 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pteronura brasiliensis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Lutrinae
Photo · Bernard Landgraf · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 14 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, both freshwater and marine.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2003 and 2020.R

2
observations
2
records
2003–2020
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:255009")