Lutrine

(li-tri’né), n. pl. [NL., -ine.) A tauineee hl of Must elide; the otters. (a) The sea-otters as well as the land-otters, both having 36 teeth, and the same number of teeth in both jaws, though the formulas are different. (b) Land-otters, as distinguished from Enhydrine or sea-otters, having the dental formula as in Lutra, the teeth of ordinary or normal carnivorous type, and the hind feet not peculiarly modified. There are several genera, of most parts of the world, as Lutra, Leptonyx or Barangia, Aonyx, Hydro gale, and Pteronura. See Enhydrine,