#0370 · 🦊 mammals

Smooth-coated Otter

🇳🇱 Slanke Otter ·Lutra perspicillata

VUvulnerable 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The smooth-coated otter ( Lutrogale perspicillata ) is a freshwater otter species from regions of South and Southwest Asia, with the majority of its numbers found in Southeast Asia. It has been ranked as "vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List since 1996, as it is threatened by habitat loss, pollution of wetlands and poaching for the illegal wildlife trade. As the common name indicates, its fur is relatively smooth, and somewhat shorter in length than that of other...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,582iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,582 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.