Accepted: Potamogale velox
Common: Giant Otter Shrew
Date 1869
Author Zoological Society of London.
Full title Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.
BHL Page URL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28777530
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATransactions_of_the_Zoological_Society_of_London_%28Pl._1%29_%287408441066%29.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) |
