• The Cretan otter (Lutrogale cretensis) is an extinct otter that was endemic to Crete during the Pleistocene. It was a close relative of the smooth-coated...
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    creutzburgi), the Cretan otter (Lutrogale (Isolalutra) cretensis), and the Cretan shrew (Crocidura zimmermanni), as well as the large terrestrial Cretan owl (Athene...
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    Lutrogale (category Otters)
    also contains the following extinct and fossil species: L. cretensis – Cretan otter L. palaeoleptonyx L. robusta Wikispecies has information related to Lutrogale...
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  • creutzburgi), the radiation of endemic Candiacervus deer, the Cretan otter, and the Cretan shrew (which is still extant). Mus minotaurus became extinct...
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    endemic to the island, the mouse Mus batae-minotaurus , the Cretan otter, and the Cretan shrew. Dwarf elephant Symeonides, N.K.; G.E. Theodorou; V.I....
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    are examples of insular dwarfism. The Cretan owl (Athene cretensis), a giant flightless owl, and the Cretan otter (Lutrogale cretensis) also went extinct...
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    elephant (Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi), the Cretan otter (Lutrogale (Isolalutra) cretensis), and the Cretan shrew (Crocidura zimmermanni). Despite living...
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    Sardinian giant otter (Megalenhydris barbaricina) Sardinian dwarf otter (Sardolutra) Cretan otter (Lutrogale cretensis) Feliformia Various Felidae spp. Eurasian...
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    The Cretan wildcat is a member of the genus Felis that inhabits the Greek island of Crete. Its taxonomic status is unclear at present, as some biologists...
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    family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks, and wolverines, and many other extant and extinct...
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    German airborne landings on Crete. Greek and other Allied forces, along with Cretan civilians, defended the island. After only one day of fighting, the Germans...
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    the two countries include many identical plants among their flora. The Cretan date palm has a very restricted range in southern Greece and Crete, with...
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    order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews, which...
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    Lipotyphla, but not the afrotherian members (tenrecs, golden moles, and otter shrews, now in their own order Afrosoricida). Eulipotyphla comprises the...
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    University Press. 1989. Andriotis et al., Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής Otter, Don (25 October 2016). Donnelly, Catherine; Kehler, Mateo (eds.). The Oxford...
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    were split off from it, including Afrosoricida (tenrecs, golden moles, otter shrews), Macroscelidea (elephant shrews), and Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs...
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  • Griffon Vultures and the endangered Cretan wild goat also known as the kri-kri. In the past it also featured Eurasian Otters. The African Savannah is an Africa-themed...
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    archaic than those of the woolly mammoth, which had twenty six ridges. The Cretan pygmy mammoth (M. creticus) and M. lamarmorai are the only known dwarf mammoths...
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    been taken to Crete after the war. She loves Prince Idamante, son of the Cretan King Idomeneo, but hesitates to acknowledge her love. Idamante frees the...
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    Continental relative Sardinian giant otter Megalenhydris barbaricina Sardinia Extinct (Late Pleistocene) Otters Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox Madagascar Vulnerable...
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  • African white-toothed shrew, Crocidura pachyura LC (Mediterranean islands) Cretan shrew, Crocidura zimmermanni VU (Crete) Canarian shrew, Crocidura canariensis...
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    Proceedings of the IVth ASWA Symposium, IVA (2000), pp. 67-73 (Paris) Cretan Beaches, "Eleonora's falcon", Retrieved 20 July 2012 "Gruppo Mela". Issuu...
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    reduction of Copenhagen in September 1807, and in the end of 1809 was in the Cretan off Flushing. For the following years, and till the peace, he served in...
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    Beech marten fighting a European otter, as illustrated in Brehm's Life of Animals...
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    Retrieved 2008-01-12. "The Tour of Crete". The Tour of Crete. Crete, Greece: Cretan Sports Cycling. 24 October 2015 [2016]. Retrieved 24 October 2015. Join...
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  • citellus, Castor fiber, Microtus cabrerae Carnivores: Lynx (Lynx lynx), otter (Lutra lutra) and Mustela lutreola Grey seal and harbour seal natural populations...
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    Transcaucasia, the Kopet Dag, Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Asia Minor Cretan badger (M. c. arcalus) Miller, 1907 Crete Rhodes badger (M. c. rhodius)...
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    Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Pat Lipsky, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and others continued...
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  • who in excavating Knossos in Crete had come to the view that prehistoric Cretans had worshiped a single mighty goddess at once virgin and mother. In Hutton's...
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    are a number of small wild animals to be found, such as martens, European otters, jumping spiders, and green toads. Icaria exhibits a typical Mediterranean...
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