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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER LAGOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Leporidae
--> GENUS Lepus
--> SUBGENUS ? [see comments under species]
SPECIES Lepus (? [see comments under species]) callotis
| Author: | Wagler, 1830. | | Citation: | Naturliches Syst. Amphibien: 23. | | Common Name: | White-sided Jackrabbit | | Type Locality: | "Mexico"; restricted by Nelson (1909:122) to southern end of Mexican Tableland. | | Distribution: | C Oaxaca (Mexico) north discontinuously to SW New Mexico (USA). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Subgenus Proeulagus (Gureev, 1964), or Macrotolagus (Averianov, 1998). Includes gaillardi and mexicanus; see Anderson and Gaunt (1962) and Hall (1981:328-330); but see also Gureev (1964:192, 195). Range allopatric with L. alleni, to which it is probably related. Karyotype reported by Gonzalez and Cervantes (1996). Reviewed by Best and Henry (1993b, Mammalian Species, 442). |
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