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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER LAGOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Leporidae
--> GENUS Sylvilagus
--> SUBGENUS Tapeti
SPECIES Sylvilagus (Tapeti) palustris
| Author: | Bachman, 1837. | | Citation: | J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 194. | | Common Name: | Marsh Rabbit | | Type Locality: | "…South Carolina…never...more than forty miles [64 km] from the sea coast"; restricted by Miller and Rehn (1901:183) to E South Carolina [USA]. | | Distribution: | Florida to SE Virginia (Dismal Swamp) (USA) in coastal lowlands. | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered as S. p. hefneri; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc); IUCN – Endangered as S. p. hefneri, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Tapeti (Gureev, 1964:162). S. aquaticus and S. palustris share a derived karyotype, 2n=38 (Robinson et al., 1983, 1984). Reviewed by Chapman and Willner (1981, Mammalian Species, 153). |
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