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--> ORDER LAGOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Leporidae
--> GENUS Lepus
--> SUBGENUS ?Eulagos
SPECIES Lepus (?Eulagos) corsicanus
| Author: | de Winton, 1898. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 1: 155. | | Common Name: | Corsican Hare | | Type Locality: | "Bastia," [Corsica, Italy]. | | Distribution: | Italy from the Abruzzo Mtns southward; Sicily; introduced into Corsica no later than 16th Century (Vigne, 1988). | | Status: | Not Evaluated; likely to be listed as one of the IUCN threatened categories upon evaluation, due to probable reduction in numbers and range due to over-hunting and introduction of L. europeaus (Palacios et al., 1989; Pierpaoli et al., 1999). | | Comments: | Subgenus probably Eulagos. Formerly included in capensis or europaeus; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Petter (1961a); but see also Palacios et al. (1989) and Pierpaoli et al. (1999) who provided evidence of their specific distinctness. |
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