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SPECIES Pronolagus rupestris

Author:A. Smith, 1834.
Citation:S. Afr. Quart. J., 2: 174.
Common Name:Smith’s Red Rock Hare
Type Locality:"South Africa, rocky situations" [probably Van Rhynsdorp District, Western Cape Prov., South Africa].
Distribution:Two disjunct areas: S and C South Africa, S Namibia; and E Africa, from N Malawi and E Zambia north through C Tanzania to SW Kenya.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Formerly included in crassicaudatus, see Gureev (1964:174) and Peddie (1975); see also Robinson and Dippenaar (1983a). The systematic relationships of the two widely disjunct populations should be examined (Duthie and Robinson, 1990).
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SUBSPECIES rupestris

SUBSPECIES curryi

SUBSPECIES nyikae

SUBSPECIES saundersiae

SUBSPECIES vallicola

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