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Potamogale velox (giant otter shrew)

English: Drawing of the Giant Otter shrew (Potamogale velox, published by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage 1867
Deutsch: Zeichenrische Darstellung der Großen Otterspitzmaus (Potamogale velox), veröffentlicht von José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage 1867
Date 1867
Source José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage: Un novo genero de memmiferos d'Africa occidental Bayonia velox (Potamogale velox Du Chaillu). Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. Classe de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes, 1867, pp. 1–19
Author F. Capello?
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potamogale_Bocage_1867.png

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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