Lutra congica

(Lönnberg, 1910)

Congo Clawless Otter

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Caniformia
Infraorder : Arctoidea
Superfamily : Musteloidea
Family : Mustelidae
Subfamily : Lutrinae
Genus : Lutra

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Lönnberg, E. 1910-12-15. A new subspecies of clawless otter (_Aonyx capensis congica_) from Lower Congo. Arkiv för Zoologi 7(9):1-8.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6457132

Original name as described

Aonyx capensis congica

Type material

NHRM (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Lower Congo.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Cameroon · Central African Republic · Gabon · Equatorial Guinea · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Angola · Uganda · Rwanda · Burundi? · Nigeria?

Taxonomy notes

split from A. capensis; moved from Aonyx to Lutra

Taxonomy notes citation

Jacques, H., Parnell, R. and Alary, F. 2013. Aonyx congicus. In: J. Kingdon and M. Hoffmann (eds), The Mammals of Africa. Volume V: Carnivores, Pangolins, Equids and Rhinoceroses, Bloomsbury Publishing, London. · de Ferran, V., Figueiró, H. V., de Jesus Trindade, F., Smith, O., Sinding, M. H. S., Trinca, C. S., ... & Eizirik, E. (2022). Phylogenomics of the world’s otters. Current Biology, 32(16), 3650-3658.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005841

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Aonyx capensis congica

(Lönnberg, 1910)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

congica

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

NHRM (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

3

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6457132

Authority publication

Arkiv för Zoologi

Name usages

  1. Lönnberg (1910:3, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6457132) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69049)
  2. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Aonyx microdon

(Pohle, 1919)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

microdon

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMB 30703/4

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

145

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45490215

Authority publication

Archiv für Naturgeschichte

Paraonyx philippsi

(Hinton, 1921)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

philippsi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1921.1.22.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/81cc252e-74ef-4c44-821f-e6a5a7b72ebd

Authority page

196

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15626611

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Paraonyx microdon

(Eisentraut, 1963)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

microdon

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

160

Authority publication

Hamburg

Name usages

Eisentraut (1963:160) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68788)

Aonyx congica

(Coetzee, 1971)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

congica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

9

Authority publication

Washington

Name usages

  1. Coetzee (1971:9) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67173)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:99) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:255) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Corbet & Hill (1991:108) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)

Aonyx congica congica

(Coetzee, 1971)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

congica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

9

Authority publication

Washington

Name usages

Coetzee (1971:9) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67173)

Aonyx congica microdon

(Coetzee, 1971)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

microdon

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

9

Authority publication

Washington

Name usages

Coetzee (1971:9) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67173)

Aonyx congica philippsi

(Coetzee, 1971)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

philippsi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

9

Authority publication

Washington

Name usages

Coetzee (1971:9) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67173)

Aonyx congicus

(van Zyll de Jong, 1987)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

congica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

2537

Authority publication

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Name usages

  1. van Zyll de Jong (1987:2537) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/18368)
  2. Wozencraft (1993:310) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69009)
  3. Veron, Patterson & Reeves (2008:613) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7282)
  4. Kingdon & Hoffman (2013:108) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27643)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #400000034) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #400000034) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. de Ferran, Figueiró, de Jesus Trindade, Smith, Sinding, Trinca, Lazzari, Veron, Vianna, Barbanera, Kliver, Serdyukova, Bulyonkova, Ryder, Gilbert, Koepfli & Eizirik (2022:3651) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59235)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/1794/164576337) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Aonyx capensis microdon

(Wozencraft, 2005)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

microdon

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Aonyx capensis philippsi

(Wozencraft, 2005)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

philippsi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Aonyx capensis congicus

(D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2009)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

congica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

645

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2009:645) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67177)

Lutra congica

de Ferran, Figueiró, de Jesus Trindade, O. Smith, Sinding, Trinca, G. Z. Lazzari, Veron, Vianna, Barbanera, Kliver, Serdyukova, Bulyonkova, Ryder, M. T. P. Gilbert, Koepfli, & Eizirik, 2022

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

congica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

3652

Authority publication

Current Biology

Name usages

  1. de Ferran, Figueiró, de Jesus Trindade, Smith, Sinding, Trinca, Lazzari, Veron, Vianna, Barbanera, Kliver, Serdyukova, Bulyonkova, Ryder, Gilbert, Koepfli & Eizirik (2022:3652) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59235)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005841) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

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