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Oriental Small-clawed Otter
Lutra cinerea Illiger, 1815

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Carnivora - carnivores »  family Mustelidae »  genus Lutra - otter

Scientific synonyms

Amblonyx cinerea Illiger, 1815
Amblonyx cinereus Illiger, 1815
Aonyx cinerea (Illiger, 1815)
Aonyx cinereus (Illiger, 1815)
Paronyx cinerea
Amblonyx horsfieldi
Amblonyx leptonyx

Other names

= Asian Small Clawed Otter
= Small-clawed Otter

Vulnerable VU  as Aonyx cinereus

Images


juvenile animal

Lutra cinerea - Oriental Small-clawed Otter

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Lutra cinerea - Oriental Small-clawed Otter

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Lutra cinerea - Oriental Small-clawed Otter

Author: Klaus Rudloff

skull

Lutra cinerea - Oriental Small-clawed Otter

Author: Pavel Zuber

Lutra cinerea - Oriental Small-clawed Otter

Author: Pavel Zuber

Lutra cinerea - Oriental Small-clawed Otter

Author: Pavel Zuber
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Included taxa

Number of records: 4

subspecies Lutra cinerea cinerea (Illiger, 1815)

Lutra cinerea cinerea

subspecies Lutra cinerea concolor (Rafinesque, 1832)
subspecies Lutra cinerea kecilensis (Rosli, Syed-Shabthar, Abdul-Patah et al., 2014)
subspecies Lutra cinerea nirnai (Pocock, 1940)

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [44166]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Aonyx cinereus (Illiger, 1815)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1005840]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Lutra cinerea Illiger, 1815]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Aonyx cinerea Illiger, 1815]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [121:zwergotter-aonyx-cinerea&Itemid=245]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Amblonyx cinereus (Illiger, 1815)]

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