Potamogale velox Du Chaillu 1860

Potamogale velox Du Chaillu 1860, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 7: 361.

Type Locality: "Mountains of the interior, or in the hilly country … north and south of the equator, Equatorial Africa" [Gabon].

Vernacular Names: Giant Otter Shrew.

Synonyms: Potamogale allmani Jentink 1895; Potamogale argens Thomas 1915 .

Distribution: Tropical Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.