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Sylvilagus floridanus

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Description

Sylvilagus floridanus (J. A. Allen, 1890). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3:160.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Sebastian River, Brevard Co.," [Florida, USA].

DISTRIBUTION: N, C, and W Venezuela (including adjacent islands) and adjacent Colombia through Central America (disjunct in part); to NW Mexico, Arizona, north and east to North Dakota, Minnesota, N Michigan, New York and Massachusetts, Atlantic Coast south and Florida Gulf Coast (USA) west to Mexico; also S Saskatchewan, S Ontario and SC Quebec (C Canada).

STATUS: Secure.

SYNONYMS: alacer (Bangs, 1896); ammophilus Howell, 1939; avius Osgood, 1910; aztecus (J. Allen, 1890); boylei J. Allen, 1916; caniclunis Miller, 1899; chapmani (J. Allen, 1899); chiapensis (Nelson, 1904); cognatus Nelson, 1907; connectens (Nelson, 1904); continentis Osgood, 1912; costaricensis Harris, 1933; cumanicus (Thomas, 1897); durangae J. Allen, 1903; hesperius Hoffmeister and Lee, 1963; hitchensi Mearns, 1911; holzneri (Mearns, 1896); hondurensis Goldman, 1932; llanensis Blair, 1938; macrocorpus, Diersing and Wilson, 1980; mallurus (Thomas, 1898); margaritae Miller, 1898; mearnsi (J. Allen, 1894); nelsoni Baker, 1955; nigronuchalis (Hartert, 1894); orinoci Thomas, 1900; orizabae (Merriam, 1893); paulsoni Schwartz, 1956; persultator Elliot, 1903; purgatus Thomas, 1920; restrictus Nelson, 1907; rigidus Mearns, 1896; robustus (Bailey, 1905); russatus (J. Allen, 1904); similis Nelson, 1907; simplicicanus Miller, 1902; subcinctus (Miller, 1899); superciliaris (J. Allen, 1899); sylvaticus (Bachman, 1837); valenciae Thomas, 1914; yucatanicus (Miller, 1899).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sylvilagus (Gureev, 1964:164). Widely introduced in North America (Hall, 1981:301) and Europe (Flux et al., 1990). Reviewed by Chapman et al. (1980, Mammalian Species, 136).

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 pages 825-826, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088

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Related works

Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C58AD3FFFCF0050FFC6C6198C1AFFBC (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Leporidae
Genus
Sylvilagus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lagomorpha
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
J. A. Allen
Species
floridanus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sylvilagus floridanus (Allen, 1890) sec. Hoffmann, 1993

References

  • Osgood, W. H. 1910. Eight new African rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 5: 276 - 282.
  • Allen, J. A. 1916. Mammals collected on the Roosevelt Brazilian Expedition, with field notes by Leo E. Miller. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 35: 559 - 610, 6 pls.
  • Osgood, W. H. 1912. Mammals from western Venezuela and eastern Colombia. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 10: 32 - 67.
  • Lee, M. R., and D. F. Hoffmeister. 1963. Status of certain fox squirrels in Mexico and Arizona. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 76: 181 - 190.
  • Mearns, E. A. 1896. Preliminary diagnoses of new mammals from the Mexican border of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 18: 443 - 447.
  • Goldman, E. A. 1932. Review of woodrats of Neotoma lepida group. Journal of Mammalogy, 13: 59 - 67.
  • Diersing, V. A., and D. E. Wilson. 1980. Distribution and systematics of the rabbits (Sylvilagus) of west-central Mexico. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 297: 1 - 34.
  • Miller, G. S., Jr. 1902. The mammals of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 24: 751 - 795.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Chapman, N. G., and D. I. Chapman. 1980. The distribution of fallow deer: A worldwide review. Mammal Review, 10: 61 - 138.