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Published January 30, 2025 | Version v1
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Lepus (Eulagos) europaeus Pallas 1778

Authors/Creators

  • 1. General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Deir ez-Zor, Syria
  • 2. High Institute of Marine Research, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria
  • 3. Department of Biology, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan
  • 4. Museum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute of Biodiversity Change, Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany
  • 5. Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova 20, SI- 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 6. Conservation biologist, Florence, Italy
  • 7. Department of Zoology, National Museum (Natural History), Václavské nám. 68, 115 79 Praha 1 & Department of Zoology, Charles
  • 8. General Organization of Remote Sensing, Department of Environmental Researches and Regional Planning, Syria
  • 9. Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via A. Volta 4, 56126 Pisa, Italy
  • 10. Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

Description

3. European Hare, Lepus (Eulagos) europaeus Pallas, 1778

(Fig. 5)

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Subspecies: L. e. connori Robinson, 1918, L. e. syriacus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1832.

Distribution: Status uncertain. Probably restricted to semi-arid areas and adjacent dry plains of Al-Badia and in Mesopotamia westwards the coastal region and southwards the country; L. e. syriacus can be found in Mesopotamia, Orontes Basin, and the coastal regions (Fig. 6).

Previous records: Around Tell Abiad (Misonne 1957).

Notes

Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/3874162A7E42FFCBFF42FB55B18017F0

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14797613 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14797616 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/14797597 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/C44D6E527E58FFD1FFD5FFEAB373127E (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/8D0A37EA-8D5B-44D9-B2CC-8161D1E4AF54 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/3874162A7E42FFCBFF42FB55B18017F0 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/257255633 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/308923/taxon/3874162A7E42FFCBFF42FB55B18017F0.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pallas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Lagomorpha
Family
Leporidae
Genus
Lepus
Species
europaeus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lepus (Eulagos) europaeus Pallas, 1778 sec. Aidek, Ibrahim, Amr, Hutterer, Kryštufek, Serra, Benda, Shkaky, Barbanera & Al-Sheikhly, 2025

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