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Hairy-nosed otter, the Glossary

The hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) is a semiaquatic mammal native to Southeast Asia and one of the rarest and least known otter species.^[1]

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Carnivorans of Borneo
Carnivorans of Malaysia
Mammals described in 1865
Otters

Albert Günther

Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Broadhead catfish

The broadhead catfish (Clarias macrocephalus) is an economically important air-breathing catfish that is a native of Southeast Asia.

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Brunei

Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Camera trap

A camera trap is a camera that is automatically triggered by motion in its vicinity, like the presence of an animal or a human being.

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Climbing gourami

The Anabantidae are a family of ray-finned fish within the order Anabantiformes commonly called the climbing gouramies or climbing perches.

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Colubridae

Colubridae (commonly known as colubrids, from coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes.

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Conservation International

Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Crystal City, Virginia, in Arlington County, Virginia.

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Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Deramakot Forest Reserve

Deramakot Forest Reserve is a natural reserve in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.

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Eleocharis dulcis

Eleocharis dulcis, the Chinese water chestnut or water chestnut, is a grass-like sedge native to Asia, tropical Africa, and Oceania.

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Gestation

Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).

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Ipomoea aquatica

Ipomoea aquatica, widely known as water spinach, is a semi-aquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots.

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John Edward Gray

John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.

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Liana

A liana is a long-stemmed woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight.

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Local extinction

Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Melaleuca cajuputi

Melaleuca cajuputi, commonly known as cajuput or white samet is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is widespread in Australia, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and the Torres Strait islands.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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Musi River (Indonesia)

The Musi River (Sungai Musi) is a river in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia. It flows from south-west to north-east, from the Barisan Mountains range that form the backbone of Sumatra, in Kepahiang Regency, Bengkulu Province, to the Bangka Strait that forms an extension of the South China Sea. The Musi is about 750 kilometers long, and drains most of South Sumatra province.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Narathiwat province

Narathiwat (นราธิวาส,; Malay: Menara) is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand.

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Otter

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. Hairy-nosed otter and Otter are otters.

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Peat swamp forest

Peat swamp forests are tropical moist forests where waterlogged soil prevents dead leaves and wood from fully decomposing.

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Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre

The Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre (PTWRC) is a wildlife centre located roughly by road south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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Pistia

Pistia is a genus of aquatic plants in the arum family, Araceae.

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Poaching

Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.

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Pontederia crassipes

Pontederia crassipes (formerly Eichhornia crassipes), commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range.

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Rhinarium

The rhinarium (Neo-Latin, "belonging to the nose";: rhinaria) is the furless skin surface surrounding the external openings of the nostrils in many mammals.

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Sabah

Sabah, or given nickname Sabah Bumi Di Bawah Bayu (means Sabah Land Below The Wind) is a state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia.

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Semiaquatic

In biology, being semi-aquatic refers to various macroorganisms that live regularly in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.

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Smooth-coated otter

The smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a freshwater otter species from regions of South and Southwest Asia, with the majority of its numbers found in Southeast Asia. Hairy-nosed otter and smooth-coated otter are Carnivorans of Borneo, Carnivorans of Malaysia, Fauna of Sumatra, mammals of Cambodia, mammals of Indonesia, mammals of Myanmar, mammals of Thailand and otters.

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Snakehead (fish)

The snakeheads are members of the freshwater perciform fish family Channidae, native to parts of Africa and Asia.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Stenochlaena palustris

Stenochlaena palustris (choại, dilimán or hagnaya) is an edible medicinal fern species.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.

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Tabin Wildlife Reserve

The Tabin Wildlife Reserve (Taman Hidupan Liar Tabin) is a nature preserve in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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Tonlé Sap

Tonlé Sap (ទន្លេសាប,; or commonly translated as 'Great Lake' is a lake in the northwest of Cambodia. Belonging to the Mekong River system, Tonlé Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia and one of the most diverse and productive ecosystems in the world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy-nosed_otter

Also known as Hairy nosed otter, Lutra brunnea, Lutra lovii, Lutra sumatrana.

Hairy-nosed otter, the Glossary

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See also

Carnivorans of Borneo

Carnivorans of Malaysia

Mammals described in 1865

Otters

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