Lepus othus Merriam 1900
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Description
Lepus othus Merriam, 1900. Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 2:28.
TYPE LOCALITY: "St. Michaels, [Norton Sound], Alaska." [USA].
DISTRIBUTION: W and SW Alaska (USA); formerly perhaps northwestward to Pt. Barrow; as here interpreted, also E Chukotsk (Russia).
STATUS: Rare, perhaps decreasing in range and numbers (Flux and Angermann, 1990).
SYNONYMS: poadromus Merriam, 1900; tschuktschorum Nordquist, 1883.
COMMENTS: Formerly included in arcticus or timidus (see comments therein). Regarded as distinct by Hall (1981) and by Flux and Angermann (1990), who, however, followed A. J. Baker et al. (1983) in allying populations from E Chukotsk (Russia) with Alaskan populations; but see also Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Angermann (in litt., 1992) considered othus as "probably conspecific" with timidus.
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C58AD3FFFCF0050FFC6C6198C1AFFBC (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Leporidae
- Genus
- Lepus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lagomorpha
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Merriam
- Species
- othus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepus othus Merriam, 1900 sec. Hoffmann, 1993
References
- Flux, J. E. C., and R. Angermann. 1990. The hares and jackrabbits. Pp. 61 - 94, in Rabbits, hares and pikas (J. A. Chapman and J. E. C. Flux, eds.). I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 168 pp.
- 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.
- Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).