Aonyx Lesson, 1827

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 310

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Aonyx Lesson, 1827 View in CoL . Manual de Mammalogie, p. 157.

TYPE SPECIES: Aonyx Delalandi Lesson, 1827 View in CoL (= Lutra capensis Schinz, 1821 View in CoL ) by subsequent designation ( Palmer, 1904).

SYNONYMS: Anahyster Murray, 1860 ; Paraonyx Hinton, 1921 .

COMMENTS: Osgood (1932), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), and Coetzee (1977b) considered Amblonyx Rafinesque, 1832 , as congeneric; here separated based on Harris (1968), Medway (1977), and van Zyll de Jong (1972, 1987). There is little question that capensis and congicus are sister species.