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SPECIES Nesolagus netscheri
Author: | Schlegel, 1880. | Citation: | Notes Leyden Mus., II: 59. | Common Name: | Sumatran Striped Rabbit | Type Locality: | "Sumatra: Padang-Padjang...about 2000 feet" [Padangpanjang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia; ca. 610 m]. | Distribution: | Sumatra [Indonesia]. | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered; only a dozen museum specimens exist, collected between 1880 and 1916. Since these early collections there has been only one confirmed sighting (in 1972; Flux, 1990) and two photographic records (different individuals, captured in an automatic camera trap in 1998; Surridge et al., 1999). | |
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