title: Lutrogale
text: # Lutrogale
  
  Lutrogale was proposed as generic name by John Edward Gray in 1865 for otters with a convex forehead and nose, using the smooth-coated otter L. perspicillata as type species.
  
  The genus also contains the following extinct and fossil species:
  
  * L. cretensis – Cretan otter
  * L. palaeoleptonyx
  * L. robusta
  