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Lepus arcticus Ross 1819

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Description

Lepus arcticus Ross, 1819. Voy. Discovery, II; ed. 2, App. IV, p. 170.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Southeast of Cape Bowen" (Nelson, 1909:61) [Possession Bay, Bylot Island, lat. 73°37'N, Canada].

DISTRIBUTION: Greenland and Canadian arctic islands southward in open tundra to WC shore of Hudson Bay, thence northwestward to the west of Fort Anderson on coast of Arctic Ocean. Isolated populations in tundra of N Quebec and Labrador, and on Newfoundland (Canada).

STATUS: Does not appear to be at risk presently (Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: andersoni Nelson, 1934; bangsii Rhoads, 1896; banksicola Manning and Macpherson, 1958; canus Preble, 1902; glacialis Leach, 1819; groenlandicus Rhoads, 1896; hubbardi Handley, 1952; hyperboreus Pedersen, 1930; labradorius Miller, 1899; monstrabilis Nelson, 1934; persimilis Nelson, 1934; porsildi Nelson, 1934.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in timidus by Gureev (1964), Angermann (1967), Honacki et al. (1982), and Dixon et al. (1983), but considered distinct by Corbet (1978c), Hall (1981), A. J. Baker et al. (1983), and Flux and Angermann (1990). Angermann (in litt., 1992) considered it "probably conspecific" with timidus.

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 815, 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
Lepus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lagomorpha
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Ross
Species
arcticus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lepus arcticus Ross, 1819 sec. Hoffmann, 1993

References

  • Nelson, E. W. 1909. The rabbits of North America. North American Fauna, 29: 1 - 314.
  • 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.
  • Rhoads, S. N. 1896. Mammals collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his expedition to Lake Rudolf, Africa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1896: 517 - 546.
  • Preble, E. A. 1902. A biological investigation of the Hudson Bay region. North American Fauna, 22: 1 - 140.
  • 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).
  • Angermann, R. 1967. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Gattung Lepus (Lagomorpha, Leporidae). III. Zur Variabilitat palaearktischer Schneehasen. IV. Lepus yarkandensis Gunther, 1875 und Lepus oiostolus Hodgson, 1840 -- zwei endemische Hasenarten Zentralasiens. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologische Museum in Berlin, 43: 64 - 203.
  • Honacki, J. H., K. E. Kinman and J. W. Koeppl (eds.). 1982. Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference. Allen Press, Inc. and The Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas, 694 pp.
  • Dixon, K. R., J. A. Chapman, G. R. Willner, D. E. Wilson and W. Lopez-Forment. 1983. The New World jackrabbits and hares (genus Lepus) -- 2. Numerical taxonomic analysis. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 174: 53 - 56.
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 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.