Pronolagus rupestris
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Pronolagus rupestris (A. Smith, 1834). S. Afr. Quart. J., 2:174.
TYPE LOCALITY: " South Africa, rocky situations" [probably Van Rhynsdorp District, Cape Province, South Africa.].
DISTRIBUTION: Two disjunct areas: S and C South Africa, S Namibia; and E Africa, from N Malawi and E Zambia north through C Tanzania to SW Kenya.
STATUS: Secure.
SYNONYMS: australis Roberts, 1933; barretti Roberts, 1949; curryi (Thomas, 1902); fitzsimonsi Roberts, 1938; melanurus (Rüppell, 1842); mülleri Roberts, 1938; nyikae (Thomas, 1902); saundersiae (Hewitt, 1927); vallicola Kershaw, 1924.
COMMENTS: Formerly included in crassicaudatus, see Gureev (1964:174) and Peddie (1975); see also Robinson and Dippenaar (1983a). The systematic relationships of the two widely disjunct populations should be examined (Duthie and Roberts, 1990).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C58AD3FFFCF0050FFC6C6198C1AFFBC (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- A. Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Lagomorpha
- Family
- Leporidae
- Genus
- Pronolagus
- Species
- rupestris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pronolagus rupestris (Smith, 1834) sec. Hoffmann, 1993
References
- Roberts, A. 1938. Descriptions of new forms of mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 19 (2): 231 - 245.
- 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).
- Peddie, D. A. 1975. A taxonomic and autoecological study of the genus Pronolagus in southern Africa. Unpubl. M. S. thesis, University of Rhodesia, Salisbury.
- Robinson, T. J., and N. J. Dippenaar. 1983 a. Morphometrics of the South African Leporidae. I. Genus Pronolagus Lyon, 1904. Annals of the Museum, Royal African Centre for Science, Zoology, 237: 43 - 61.