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Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis Blyth 1855

Description

Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis Blyth 1855

Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis Blyth 1855, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 471.

Type Locality: " Pegu " [Upper Pegu, Burma].

Vernacular Names: Burmese Hare.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis subsp. peguensis Blyth 1855

Subspecies Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis subsp. vassali Thomas 1906

Distribution: C, S Burma from Chindwin River valley east through Thailand; Cambodia; S Laos, S Vietnam; south in upper Malay Peninsula (Burma, Thailand) to 120EN.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Indolagus by Gureev (1964:144) in Caprolagus (Indolagus); he ranked siamensis as a distinct species; but see Lekagul and McNeely (1977:333) and Flux and Angermann (1990). Petter (1961 a) suggested that peguensis might be conspecific with nigricollis because of its close resemblance to L. n. ruficaudatus. However, L. n. ruficaudatus appears to be allopatric with respect to peguensis in E India-W Burma. Suchentrunk (2004:28) considered the separate species status of L. peguensis still open. Formerly included hainanus (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1955), which is here considered a full species.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 185-211 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 202, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Blyth
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Lagomorpha
Family
Leporidae
Genus
Lepus
Species
peguensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis Blyth, 1855 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • 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).
  • Lekagul, B., and J. A. McNeely. 1977. Mammals of Thailand. Association for the Conservation of Wildlife, Sahakarnbhat Co., Bangkok, 758 pp.
  • 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.
  • Petter, F. 1961 a. Elements d'une revision des Lievres europeens et asiatiques du sous-genre Lepus. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 26: 30 - 40.
  • Suchentrunk, F. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships between Indian and Burmese hares (Lepus nigricolis and L. peguensis) inferred from epigenetic dental characters. Mammalian Biology, 69 (1): 28 - 45.
  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1955. Supplement to Chasen (1940) A handlist of Malaysian mammals, containing a generic synonomy and a complete index. British Museum (Natural History), London, 66 pp.