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Lepus townsendii Bachman 1839

Description

Lepus townsendii Bachman 1839

Lepus townsendii Bachman 1839, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8 (1): 90.

Type Locality: "...on the Walla-walla...river"; restricted by Nelson (1909:78) to Fort Walla Walla, [near present town of Wallula, Walla Walla Co., Washington].

Vernacular Names: White-tailed Jackrabbit.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Lepus townsendii subsp. townsendii Bachman 1839

Subspecies Lepus townsendii subsp. campanius Hollister 1915

Distribution: C Alberta and Saskatchewan east to extreme SW Ontario (Canada), south to SW Wisconsin, Iowa, NW Missouri, west through C Kansas to NC New Mexico, west to C Nevada, EC California (USA) and north to SC British Columbia (Canada).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Placed (as campestris) in subgenus Proeulagus by Gureev (1964), or in Eulagos (Averianov, 1998). Reviewed by Lim (1987, Mammalian Species, 288).

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 205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bachman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Lagomorpha
Family
Leporidae
Genus
Lepus
Species
townsendii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lepus townsendii Bachman, 1839 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Nelson, E. W. 1909. The rabbits of North America. North American Fauna, 29: 1 - 314.
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Lim, B. K. 1987. Lepus townsendii. Mammalian Species, 288: 1 - 6.