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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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SUBSPECIES capensis

SUBSPECIES congica

SUBSPECIES hindei

SUBSPECIES meneleki

SUBSPECIES microdon

SUBSPECIES philippsi

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