Potamogale velox (giant otter shrew) Title: Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine kunde des Tierreichs
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Alfred Edmund Brehm, 1829-1884; Otto L. Zur Strassen, 1869-; Ludwig Heck, 1860-; Friedrich Hempelmann, 1878-; Richard Heymons, 1867-; Franz Werner, b. 1867; William Marshall, 1845-; Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig
Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/brehmstierlebena10breh/#page/n346/mode/1up
Author Alfred Brehm (1829–1884)
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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)
