Lepus (Eulagos) mandshuricus Radde 1861
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Lepus (Eulagos) mandshuricus Radde 1861
Lepus (Eulagos) mandshuricus Radde 1861, Melanges Biol. Acad. St. Petersbourg, Vol. 3: 684.
Type Locality: "Im Chy (Gebirge)" Bureya Mtns [Khabarovskii Krai, Russia].
Vernacular Names: Manchurian Hare.
Synonyms: Lepus (Eulagos) melainus Li and Luo 1979; Lepus (Eulagos) melanonotus Ognev 1922.
Distribution: Ussuri region (Russia); NE China; extreme NE Korea.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Subgenus Eulagos (Averianov, 1998). Distinct from brachyurus; see Angermann (1966, 1983); placed in Caprolagus (Allolagus) brachyurus by Gureev (1964:150); followed by Gromov and Baranova (1981:63). Melanic individuals known since at least the time of Sowerby (1923) have been given the specific designation melainus (Li and Luo, 1979). The range of this taxon is entirely within that of mandshuricus, and we provisionally retain them in that species, although Flux and Angermann (1990) recognized melainus. L. mandshuricus and L. coreanus are parapatric in distribution in NE Korea /SE Heilungjiang, but are described as occupying different habitats; the former, mixed forest in hilly country, the latter, both forest and cultivated land, primarily in the plains (Flux and Angermann, 1990). Moreover, mandshuricus is sympatric with another forest species, timidus, and with the plains species, tolai; as forest is cleared, tolai tends to replace mandshuricus (Flux and Angermann, 1990). L. mandshuricus, L. timidus and L. tolai all occur in the area occupied by the taxon melainus; four species of sympatric hares, three of them forest-dwellers, is unprecedented in hare ecology, and supports the view that melainus is not a distinct species.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Radde
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Lagomorpha
- Family
- Leporidae
- Genus
- Lepus
- Species
- mandshuricus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepus (Eulagos) mandshuricus Radde, 1861 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Li, Z., and Z. Luo. 1979. [On a new species of wild hare from China.] Journal of the Northeast Forestry Institute, 12: 71 - 81 (in Chinese).
- Averianov, A. O. 1998. Podrodovaya sistematika zaitsev roda Lepus (Lagomorpha, Leporidae) [Sub-generic systematics of the hares, genus Lepus ...]. Byulletin' Moskovskovo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii, 103 (1): 3 - 8 (in Russian with English summary).
- Angermann, R. 1966. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Gattung Lepus (Lagomorpha, Leporidae). I. Abgrenzung der Gattung Lepus. II. Der taxonomische Status von Lepus brachyurus Temminck und Lepus mandshuricus Radde. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologische Museum in Berlin, 42: 127 - 335.
- Angermann, R. 1983. The taxonomy of Old World Lepus. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 174: 17 - 21.
- 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).
- Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).
- Sowerby, A. de C. 1923. The naturalist in Manchuria. Tientsin Press Ltd. [China], 2: xxvii + 191.
- 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.