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All river otters of Japan were described in the 19th century as a subspecies of the Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra whiteleyi.In the early 1990s, a comparison of mitochondrial cytochrome b of otters from Latvia and China, and a stuffed otter from Japan, made by Kōchi University, found that the Japanese otter belonged to a distinct species, which was named Lutra nippon. [7]
In Japanese, otters are called "kawauso" (獺、川獺). In Japanese folklore, they fool humans in the same way as foxes and tanuki. In the Noto region, Ishikawa Prefecture, there are stories where they shapeshift into beautiful women or children wearing checker-patterned clothing. If a human attempts to speak to one, they will answer "oraya ...
Kawauso, meaning "river otter" in Japanese, can refer to: Otters (see Otter#Japanese folklore) Kawauso-kun, a fictional character from the manga series Uturun Desu
Riro (リロ, Riro, 30 March 2007 – 4 January 2025) was a male sea otter at Marine World Uminonakamichi.He was the last male sea otter at a Japanese aquarium, and one of the last three remaining sea otters of any gender in Japanese aquaria.
The Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus), also known as the oriental small-clawed otter and the small-clawed otter, is an otter species native to South and Southeast Asia. It has short claws that do not extend beyond the pads of its webbed digits. With a total body length of 730 to 960 mm (28.6 to 37.6 in), and a maximum weight of 3.5 kg ...
Habitats vary widely as well, from the arboreal marten to the fossorial European badger to the marine sea otter. Population sizes are largely unknown, though two species, the sea mink and Japanese otter, were hunted to extinction in 1894 and 1979, respectively, and several other species are endangered.
The Eurasian otter is the most widely distributed otter species, its range including parts of Asia and northern Africa, as well as being spread across Europe, south to Palestine. Though currently thought to be extinct in Liechtenstein and Switzerland , it is now common in Latvia , along the coast of Norway , in the western regions of Spain and ...
There are several species of fresh water otters commonly known as river otters. Eurasian river otter, found in Eurasia; Giant river otter, found in South America; Japanese river otter, an extinct species; Neotropical river otter, found in Central and South America; North American river otter, found in North America