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Otter Joy - Smooth-Coated Otter Classification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Lutrogale perspicillata perspicillata (Geoffroy, 1826): large dark chestnut brown animal with a paler belly and feet, and a whitish chin. |
 | | Lutrogale perspicillata sindica (Pocock, 1949): smaller, paler animal, ranging from tawny to greyish; found in the Indus Valley, Pakistan. |
 | | Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli (Hayman, 1957): very dark brown, with the underside only very slightly paler, with an iron grey chin; this is Gavin Maxwell's famous Mijbil, and he and the other type specimen, a skin, were found in the marshes of the Tigris-Euphrates, in modern Iraq. |
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