Common name (e.g. turtle)

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Genus + Species (e.g. Caretta caretta)

Hydrictis maculicollis   (Lichtenstein, 1835)

Spot-necked otter

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Carnivora | Mustelidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic.  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Eastern Atlantic, Africa-Inland Water and Western Indian Ocean: Hydrictis maculicollis matschiei: Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon; Hydrictis maculicollis nilotica: Southern Sudan, Ethiopia; Hydrictis maculicollis chobiensis: Congo River, Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe; Hydrictis maculicollis kivuana: Eastern Congo, Uganda, southwest Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and northwest Tanzania; Hydrictis maculicollis maculicollis: southern Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, south to Cape Province.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Rice, D.W. 1998. (Ref. 1522)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Threat to humans

Human uses

| FishSource |

Tools

Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models