🦦Eurasian otter
القضاعة الأوراسية أو القضاعة الأوروبية أو كلب الماء (الاسم العلمي: Lutra lutra)(الإنجليزية: Eurasian otter) هي نوع نموذجي من فصيلة القضاعات، وأكثرها انتشارًا. هذه المخلوقات نحيلة طويلة ومجهزة تجهيزًا جيدًا لعاداتهم المائية. تتميز هذه القضاعة عن قضاعة نهر أمريكا الشمالية بعدة صفات، فهي ذات رقبة أقصر ومساحة أكبر بين الأذنين ولها أيضًا ذيل طويل. تُعد أنثى القضاعة أقصر طولًا من الذكر، ومتوسط وزن الجسم هو 7-12 كجم.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 7.81 kg
- Body length
- 0.75 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 22 years
Everything we know about the Eurasian otter
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass7.81 kgrecord 10,000 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 6.75 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.75 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female11 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Figures vary
- 9.8 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass45 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan22 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 18 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length7.59 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.9 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation63 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 61 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range21 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.85 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l7.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Eurasian otter yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyMustelidae
- ›genusLutra
- ›speciesLutra lutra
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- subfamilyLutrinae
- genusLutra
All 15 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyMustelidae
- subfamilyLutrinae
- genusLutra
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