Megalenhydris barbaricina Willemsen & Malatesta, 1987
Sardinian giant otter
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Sardinia, Italy
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Willemsen, G. F. & Malatesta, A. (1987). Megalenhydris barbaricina sp. nov., a new otter from Sardinia. [i]Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet. B[/i] [b]90[/b]: 83-92.
Other references:
Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.
Malatesta, A. (1977). The skeleton of Nesolutra ichnusae sp. n. a Quaternary otter discovered in Sardinia. Geol. Romana 16: 173-209.
Malatesta, A. (1978). On the genus Cyrnaonyx Helbing, 1935 (Mustelidae, Lutrinae) and its type species. Quaternaria, 20: 109-1 16.
Sondaar, P. Y. (1978). La ricerca dei mammiferi fossili in Sardegna. Grottas Nurras, 3 (3): 13-15.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.
Willemsen, Gerard F. (1992). A revision of Pliocene and Quaternary Lutrinae from Europe. Scripta Geol. 101: 1-115.
Willemsen, Gerard F. (2006). Megalenhydris and its relationship to Lutra reconsidered. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 41: 83-87.
Wright, Lesley. (July 22, 2007). "Questions and Answers: In-Depth Responses". IUCN Otter Specialist Group.