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--> FAMILY Leporidae
--> GENUS Sylvilagus
--> SUBGENUS Sylvilagus
SPECIES Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii
| Author: | Bachman, 1837. | | Citation: | J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 345. | | Common Name: | Mountain Cottontail | | Type Locality: | "...west of the Rocky Mountains,...streams which flow into the Shoshonee and Columbia rivers"; restricted by Nelson (1909:201) to "eastern Oregon, near mouth of Malheur River." Listed by Bailey (1936) as "near Vale." | | Distribution: | Intermountain area of North America from S British Columbia to S Saskatchewan (Canada), south to E California, Nevada, C Arizona, and NW New Mexico (USA). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Sylvilagus (Gureev, 1964:168). This species is closely allopatric with S. floridanus where the two species ranges meet across the N and C Great Plains (see map 223, Hall, 1981), and in the Southwestern USA (Hoffmeister and Lee, 1963b). Reviewed by Chapman (1975a, Mammalian Species, 56). |
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