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Lepus flavigularis Wagner 1844

Description

Lepus flavigularis Wagner, 1844. In Schreber, Die Säugethiere..., Suppl. 4:106.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Mexico " Restricted by Elliot (1905:543) to San Mateo del Mar, Tehuantepec [City, Oaxaca, Mexico].

DISTRIBUTION: Coastal plains and bordering foothills on south end of Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), along Pacific coast to Chiapas (Mexico); now restricted to small area between Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, and extreme W Chiapas.

STATUS: IUCN - Endangered, by habitat destruction and overhunting.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Proeulagus (Gureev, 1964:193). Closely related to callotis, with which it has an isolated allopatric distribution; see Anderson and Gaunt (1962); also see Hall (1981:330).

Notes

Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 807-827 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 818, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088

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Biodiversity

Family
Leporidae
Genus
Lepus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lagomorpha
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Wagner
Species
flavigularis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lepus flavigularis Wagner, 1844 sec. Hoffmann, 1993

References

  • Elliot, D. G. 1905. A checklist of mammals of the North American continent, the West Indies and the neighboring seas. Field Columbian Museum, Publication 105, Zoological Series, 6: 1 - 761.
  • Gureev, A. A. 1964. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 10, Zaitseobraznye (Lagomorpha) [Fauna of the USSR, mammals, vol. 3, pt. 10, Lagomorpha]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 276 pp. (in Russian).
  • Anderson, S., and A. S. Gaunt. 1962. A classification of white-sided jack rabbits of Mexico. American Museum Novitates, 2088: 1 - 16.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.