Aonyx capensis (Schinz 1821)
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Aonyx capensis (Schinz 1821) |
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Aonyx capensis (Schinz 1821) View in CoL
[Lutra] capensis Schinz 1821 View in CoL , 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 .
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