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GENUS Aonyx

Author:Lesson, 1827.
Citation:Manual de Mammalogie: 157.
Type Species:Aonyx delalandi Lesson, 1827 (= Lutra capensis Schinz, 1821) by subsequent designation (Palmer, 1904).
Comments:Aonyx is considered congeneric with Amblonyx (Coetzee, 1977b; Davis, 1978; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Koepfli and Wayne, 1998; Osgood, 1932). However see Harris (1968), Medway (1977), and van Zyll de Jong (1972, 1987) who considered them separate. There is little question that capensis and congica are sister species. Koepfli and Wayne (1998) and Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999) supported monophyly of Amblonyx + Aonyx.
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Offspring:

SPECIES capensis

SUBSPECIES capensis

SUBSPECIES congica

SUBSPECIES hindei

SUBSPECIES meneleki

SUBSPECIES microdon

SUBSPECIES philippsi

SPECIES cinerea

SUBSPECIES cinerea

SUBSPECIES concolor

SUBSPECIES nirnai

Synonyms:

    Amblonyx Rafinesque, 1832
    Anahyster Murray, 1861
    Leptonyx Lesson, 1842
    Micraonyx J. A. Allen, 1919
    Paraonyx Hinton, 1921

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