Biology:Siamogale
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Siamogale is an extinct genus of giant otter from the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene of eastern Asia. Three species are currently known, S. thailandica and S. bounosa from Thailand and S. melilutra from China.[1]
Palaeoecology
Analysis of the functional morphology of the postcranium of S. melilutra suggests that it occupied a similar ecological niche to the present day Aonyx: a shoreline forager that often moved about on land. It would have been more inhibited by drag when moving through water relative to other otters.[2]
References
- ↑ Wang, Xiaoming; Grohé, Camille; Su, Denise F.; White, Stuart C.; Ji, Xueping; Kelley, Jay; Jablonski, Nina G.; Deng, Tao et al. (22 January 2017). "A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines" (in en). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16 (1): 39–65. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1267666. ISSN 1477-2019. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2016.1267666. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
- ↑ Adrian, Brent; Kelley, Jay; Wang, Xiaoming; Ji, Xueping; Su, Denise F. (17 April 2025). "Postcranial functional morphology of the large swamp otter Siamogale melilutra (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora) from northeastern Yunnan, south‐western China" (in en). The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.25669. ISSN 1932-8486. https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25669. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
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