Common name (e.g. turtle)

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Genus + Species (e.g. Caretta caretta)

Aonyx capensis   (Schinz, 1821)

African small-clawed otter

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Carnivora | Mustelidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic.  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Eastern Atlantic, Western Indian Ocean and Africa Inland Waters: Aonyx capensis meneleki: northern and central Ethiopia; Aonyx capensis subsp.: West Africa from Senegal and Guinea east to Nigeria; Aonyx capensis hindei: from Uganda and central Kenya south to northern Zambia; Aonyx capensis capensis: Southern Africa from Angola and Zambia southward to Cape Province; Aonyx capensis microdon: tributaries of the Sanaga River in Cameroon; Aonyx capensis congica: throughout the basin of the Congo River; Aonyx capensis philippsi: Highlands of northeast Congo, southwest Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi (Ref. 1522).

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Rice, D.W. 1998 Marine Mammals of the World Systematics and Distribution. Special Publication number 4: The Society for Marine Mammalogy. 231p. (Ref. 1522)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Threat to humans

Human uses

| FishSource |

Tools

Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models