Taxonomy
The exact number of species of ''Enhydrictis'' has been a matter of debate. One species, ''Pannonictis'' ''pilgrimi'' has been classified as a belonging to ''Enhydictis'' (as ''Enydrictis ardea''), although this is unlikely. A 2019 study also suggests that the genus ''Oriensictis'' of Asia should be considered a synonym of ''Enhydrictis'' as well. In 2016, a new species from Algeria was described. Known as ''Enhydrictis hoffstetteri'', it is the first member of the genus known from Africa. Other scholars have considered the attribution of this species to ''Enhydrictis'' doubtful, and that the species should be placed in ''Pannonictis'' instead. In 2018 a new species, ''Enhydrictis praegalictoides'' was described from Middle Pleistocene aged sites on Sardinia, which is likely ancestral to ''E. galictoides''. ''Enhydrictis'' and its relatives are classified as belonging to the subfamily Galictinae. and to the tribe Galctini. While Galictini was widespread in Eurasia during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, the only extant members of the tribe, the grisons (''Galictis'') and the Patagonian weasel (''Lyncodon''), are endemic to Central and South America.Description
''Enhydrictis galictoides'' was a fairly large, robust terrestrial mustelid. When first described, it was considered to be an otter-like species adapted to an aquatic lifestyle, but studies on the limb bones do not support such claims.Paleoecology
Before the arrival of humans on the islands in about 8000 BC, Corsica and Sardinia had their own highly Endemism, endemic depauperate terrestrial mammal fauna which included a species of dwarf mammoth (''Mammuthus lamarmorai''), the Tyrrhenian vole (''Microtus henseli''), the Sardinian pika (''Prolagus sardus''), the Tyrrhenian field rat (''Rhagamys orthodon'') one or two species of shrew belonging to the genus ''Asoriculus'', a Mole (animal), mole (''Talpa tyrrhenica''), the Sardinian dhole (''Cynotherium sardous''), three species of otter (''Algarolutra majori, Sardolutra, Sardolutra ichnusae, Megalenhydris barbaricina'') and a deer (''Praemegaceros, Praemegaceros cazioti''). All of these species are now extinct.References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q108030483 Pleistocene carnivorans Prehistoric mustelids Pleistocene mammals of Europe Prehistoric carnivoran genera