Sylvilagus (Tapeti) palustris (Bachman 1837)

[Lepus] palustris Bachman 1837, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 194.

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].

Vernacular Names: Marsh Rabbit.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Tapeti) palustris subsp. palustris Bachman 1837

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Tapeti) palustris subsp. hefneri Lazell 1984

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Tapeti) palustris subsp. paludicola Miller and Bangs 1894

Distribution: Florida to SE Virginia (Dismal Swamp) (USA) in coastal lowlands.

Conservation: U.S. ESA – Endangered as S. p. hefneri; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc); IUCN – Endangered as S. p. hefneri, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: 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).