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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Mustelidae
--> SUBFAMILY Lutrinae
--> GENUS Hydrictis
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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| Offspring: | 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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