Special Natural Monument
Mammals
Japanese Otter
Lutra nippon
Photo: KKPCW / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
The Japanese Otter was a weasel-family animal that once lived in rivers and along coasts across Japan, eating fish and crabs. Hunting for its fur and degradation of rivers reduced it, and sightings became rare after the 1970s. In 2012 the Ministry of the Environment declared it extinct. It had been designated a Special Natural Monument.
- Scientific name
- Lutra nippon
- Group
- Mammals
- 日本語
- ニホンカワウソ
- 简体中文
- 日本水獭
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