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Aonyx capensis

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Aonyx capensis (Schinz 1821)

[Lutra] capensis Schinz 1821, in: G. Cuvier, Das Thierreich, Vol. 1: 211.

Type Locality: "Capischer otter. Afrika" [South Africa, (former) Cape Province].

Vernacular Names: African Clawless Otter.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Aonyx capensis subsp. capensis Schinz 1821

Subspecies Aonyx capensis subsp. congica Lönnberg 1910

Subspecies Aonyx capensis subsp. hindei Thomas 1905

Subspecies Aonyx capensis subsp. meneleki Thomas 1903

Subspecies Aonyx capensis subsp. microdon Pohle 1920

Subspecies Aonyx capensis subsp. philippsi Hinton 1921

Distribution: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi (?), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I (populations of Cameroon and Nigeria), otherwise Appendix II as A. congicus; U.S. ESA – Endangered as A. congicus microdon; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as A. capensis, Data Deficient as A. congicus.

Discussion: Reviewed by Larivière (2001 c, d). Synonyms allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939), and Ellerman et al. (1953). A. congica was considered a distinct species by Pohle (1920 a) and van Zyll de Jong (1987). Perret and Aellen (1956) and Davis (1978) included Paraonyx philippsi and Aonyx microdon.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 601, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schinz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Aonyx
Species
capensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aonyx capensis (Schinz, 1821) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Thomas, O. 1903. Notes on Neotropical mammals of the genera Felis, Hapale, Oryzomys, Akodon, and Ctenomys, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 12: 234 - 243.
  • Hinton, M. A. C. 1921. Some new African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 7: 368 - 373.
  • Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.
  • Pohle, H. 1920 a. Die Unterfamilie der Lutrinae. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 85 A (9): 1 - 247.
  • van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1987. A phylogenetic study of the Lutrinae (Carnivora; Mustelidae) using morphological data. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 65: 2536 - 2544.
  • Perret, J. - L., and V. Aellen. 1956. Mammiferes du Cameroun de la collection J. - L. Perret. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 63 (26): 395 - 450.