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SPECIES Aonyx capensis
Author: | Schinz, 1821. | Citation: | In G. Cuvier, Das Thierreich, 1: 211. | Common Name: | African Clawless Otter | Type Locality: | "Capischer otter. . Afrika" [South Africa, (former) Cape Province]. | 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. | Status: | 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. | Comments: | Reviewed by Larivière (2001c, d). Synonyms allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939), and Ellerman et al. (1953). A. congica was considered a distinct species by Pohle (1920a) and van Zyll de Jong (1987). Perret and Aellen (1956) and Davis (1978) included Paraonyx philippsi and Aonyx microdon. |
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