Lepus capensis Linnaeus, 1758

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 595-604 : 599

Lepus capensis Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:58 .

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope .

DISTRIBUTION: Africa (in non-forested areas); open woodland, steppe and subdesert of the Palearctic from S. Sweden and Finland to Britain (introduced to Ireland), through Europe to the West Siberian Lowlands, Mongolia, China, Iran, and Arabia; also introduced into North and South America, and Australasia.

COMMENT: Includes arabicus, cyanotis, europaeus , starcki , tibetanus, tolai, and atlanticus; see Corbet, 1978:71. JECF and OLR doubt that europaeus is a subspecies of capensis ; see Angermann, 1972, in Grzimek, ed., Anim. Life Encyclop., 12: 432. L. starcki may also be a full species (JECF). Most Russian authors consider tolai (including tibetanus) a distinct species; see Gromov and Baranova, 1981:65. Sludskii et al., 1980:58, 85, indicated an area of sympatry between europaeus and tolai in Kazakhstan. Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:85, considered tibetanus a distinct species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301409002002007001 as L. capensis .

5301409002002009001 as L. europaeus .