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--> GENUS Pronolagus
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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