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Leporidae Fischer 1817
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Description
Family LEPORIDAE
(HARES AND RABBITS)
• Small to medium-sized lagomorphs with short fluffy tails, soft thick pelage, and large eyes; ears project upward; hindlimbs longer than forelimbs.
• 23-68 cm.
• Holarctic, Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan, and Neotropical Regions.
• Forests, shrubby areas, grasslands, deserts, tundra, alpine slopes, and agricultural landscapes up to 5400 m.
• 11 genera, 63 species, 269 taxa.
• 2 species Critically Endangered; 7 species Endangered; b species Vulnerable; no species Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Leporidae, pp. 107-148 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 107, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6625539
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fischer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Lagomorpha
- Family
- Leporidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leporidae Fischer, 1817 sec. Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier, 2016