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SPECIES Hydrictis maculicollis

Author:Lichtenstein, 1835.
Citation:Arch. Naturgesch., 1: 89.
Common Name:Spotted-necked Otter
Type Locality:"Kafferlandes am östlichen Abhange der Bambusberge."
Distribution:Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable as Lutra maculicollis.
Comments:Reviewed by Larivière (2002c). Pocock (1921c) and Cabrera (1929) placed maculicollis in the monotypic Hydrictis; however, Ansell (1978) and Harris (1968) considered Hydrictis a subgenus of Lutra (see comments under Lutra). Two recent studies (Koepfli and Wayne, 1998, and Bininda-Emonds et al., 1999) concluded that inclusion in Lutra would make Lutra paraphyletic. Van Zyll de Jong (1987) and Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999) suggested that Hydrictis and Lutrogale may be sister taxa. Subspecies not recognized (Kingdon, 1997; Larivière, 2002c).
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Synonyms:

    chobiensis (Roberts, 1932)
    concolor (Neumann, 1902)
    grayii (Gerrard, 1862)
    kivuana (Pohle, 1920)
    malculicollis (Roberts, 1932)
    matschiei (Cabrera, 1903)
    mutandae (Hinton, 1921)
    nilotica Thomas, 1911
    poensis (Waterhouse, 1838)
    tenuis (Pohle, 1919)

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