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--> FAMILY Leporidae
--> GENUS Lepus
--> SUBGENUS Eulagos
SPECIES Lepus (Eulagos) comus
| Author: | Allen, 1927. | | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 284: 9. | | Common Name: | Yunnan Hare | | Type Locality: | "Teng-yueh [Tengueh], Yunnan Province, China, 5,500 feet [1676 m] altitude." | | Distribution: | Yunnan, W Guizhou (China). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Eulagos (Averianov, 1998). Formerly included in oiostolus; see Corbet (1978c). Elevated to specific status by Cai and Feng (1982) and Wang et al. (1985), on the basis of morphological and ecological differences. May be allo- or parapatric with oiostolus. Possibly related to nigricollis (Flux and Angermann, 1990). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
peni Wang and Luo, 1985
pygmaeus Wang and Feng, 1985
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