subspecies: Southern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis)
1 Observation
subspecies: Southern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis)
- Observer
- elizabethbettenhausen
- Date
- 9/12/2021
- Quality grade
- research
- License
- CC-BY-NC
- Description
- The dead sea otter was brought in by high tide ca. 6 hours earlier. Mike Harris of CA Fish and Wildlife will check it out tomorrow, but judging by the photos it is very decomposed. The female sea otter was a 1-1.5 year old female with many shark teeth marks. Harris did the analysis on 9/13/21, decapitated the otter for lab analysis, and buried the rest of the body. The otter had been dead ca. 7 days. I'd not seen any turkey vultures or gulls at the body. Harris told me that they cannot get through the thick hair of the otter and so can get access only to open holes in the body. The flies were making progress there, however.
- Coordinates are obscured
- Taxon is threatened or rare so the coordinates are obscured.
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Taxonomy
- kingdom: Animals (Animalia) 3656 observations
- phylum: Chordates (Chordata) 519 observations
- class: Mammals (Mammalia) 87 observations
- order: Carnivorans (Carnivora) 25 observations
- family: Mustelids (Mustelidae) 8 observations
- genus: (Enhydra) 7 observations
- species: Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) 7 observations
- subspecies: Southern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) 1 observation
Species Interactions
The species with links are species that have observations.
Eats
- Rock Crabs (Cancridae)
- Pacific Rock Crab (Romaleon antennarium)
- European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)
- Striped Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes)
- Giant Rock Scallop (Crassadoma gigantea)
- Southern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis)
- Gooseneck Barnacle (Pollicipes polymerus)
- (Nereididae)
- Eccentric Sand Dollar (Dendraster excentricus)
- Dungeness Crab (Metacarcinus magister)
- Red Abalone (Haliotis rufescens)
- Nuttall's Cockle (Clinocardium nuttallii)
- Japanese Littleneck (Ruditapes philippinarum)
- California Mussel (Mytilus californianus)
- Pacific Geoduck (Panopea generosa)
- (Strongylocentrotus)
- Abalone And Pāua (Haliotis)
- Birds (Aves)
- Bat Star (Patiria miniata)
- Black Mussels (Mytilus)
- Northern Kelp Crab (Pugettia producta)
- Pacific Purple Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)
- Rough Piddock (Zirfaea pilsbryi)
- Bivalves (Bivalvia)
- Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)
- Fat Innkeeper Worm (Urechis caupo)
- Red Sea Urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)
- Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)
- Sickle Jacknife (Solen sicarius)
- (Glycera robusta)
- Spiny Mole Crab (Blepharipoda occidentalis)
- Sheep Crab (Loxorhynchus grandis)
- Pismo Clam (Tivela stultorum)
- Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis)
- Black Abalone (Haliotis cracherodii)
- California Butterclam (Saxidomus nuttalli)
- (Tresus nuttallii)
Preys on
- Northern Kelp Crab (Pugettia producta)
- Bivalves (Bivalvia)
- California Mussel (Mytilus californianus)
- Rock Crabs (Cancridae)
- Black Mussels (Mytilus)
- European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)
- Pacific Rock Crab (Romaleon antennarium)
- Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)
- Dungeness Crab (Metacarcinus magister)
- (Metacarcinus)
- (Tresus nuttallii)
- (Saxidomus)
- Sheep Crab (Loxorhynchus grandis)
Species interaction data comes from GloBI.