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Potamogale velox (giant otter shrew)
| Subject: | Potamogale velox (giant otter shrew)
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Potamogale velox illustrant le frontispice du récit du premier voyage de Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, "l'Afrique sauvage", publié en 1868, dans lequel il raconte ses explorations dans l'intérieur du futur Gabon.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potamogale_chaillu.jpg
The giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox) is a semiaquatic, carnivorous afrotherian mammal. It is found in the main rainforest block of central Africa from Nigeria to Zambia, with a few isolated populations in Kenya and Uganda. It lives in streams, wetlands and slow flowing larger rivers. Otter shrews are most closely related to the tenrecs of Madagascar.
Order: Afrosoricida
Suborder: Tenrecomorpha
Family: Potamogalidae
Genus: Potamogale
Species: Potamogale velox (Du Chaillu, 1860) |
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