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--> FAMILY Leporidae
--> GENUS Lepus
--> SUBGENUS ? [see comments under species]
SPECIES Lepus (? [see comments under species]) oiostolus
| Author: | Hodgson, 1840. | | Citation: | J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 9: 1186. | | Common Name: | Woolly Hare | | Type Locality: | "...the snowy region of the Hemalaya, and perhaps also Tibet." Restricted by Kao and Feng (1964), to "Southern Tibet" [Xizang, China]. | | Distribution: | Tibetan Plateau, from Ladak to Sikkim (India) Nepal, and eastward through Xizang (Tibet) and Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan (China). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Placed in subgenus Proeulagus by Gureev (1964) and Eulagos by Averianov (1998); przewalskii was assigned to capensis (= tolai) by Corbet (1978c), but is placed in oiostolus following Cai and Feng (1982). |
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