Current distribution of North American river otters in central and eastern Oklahoma, with seven new county records

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Series: Occasional papers / Museum of Texas Tech University, no. 294

By

Barrett, Dominic A. (Dominic Alan), 1981-

Leslie, D. M.
Texas Tech University. Museum,
Texas Tech University. Natural Science Research Laboratory.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Lubbock, TX, Museum of Texas Tech University, [2010]

Notes

Caption title.

"Texas Tech University, Natural Science Research Laboratory."

"1 July 2010."

In 1984 and 1985, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation reintroduced North American river otters (Lontra canadensis) from coastal Louisiana into eastern Oklahoma. Those reintroductions and immigration from Arkansas and possibly northeastern Texas allowed river otters to become reestablished in eastern Oklahoma. Our goals were to determine the contemporary distribution of river otters in central and eastern Oklahoma with voucher specimens, sign surveys, and mail surveys and to compare proportion of positive detections among watersheds. We report new distributional records with voucher specimens from seven counties (Adair, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Tulsa) in Oklahoma. We also provide locality information for specimens collected from four counties (Haskell, McCurtain, Muskogee, Wagoner) where river otters were described in published literature but no voucher specimens existed. During winter and spring 2006 and 2007, we visited 340 bridge sites in 28 watersheds in eastern and central Oklahoma and identified river otter signs in 16 counties where river otters were not previously documented in published literature or by voucher specimens. Proportion of positive sites within each watershed ranged 0-100%. Mail surveys suggested that river otters occurred in eight additional counties where they were not previously documented by published literature, voucher specimens, or sign-survey efforts.

Subjects

Geographical distribution , lontra , North American river otter , Oklahoma , Otters

Call Number

AS36 .T4955 NO.294

Classification

599.7692/09766

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 724616789
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q109807362