Lepus (Lepus) arcticus Ross 1819

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 185-211 : 195

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Lepus (Lepus) arcticus Ross 1819
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Lepus (Lepus) arcticus Ross 1819 View in CoL

Lepus (Lepus) arcticus Ross 1819 View in CoL , Voy. Discovery, II; ed. 2, App. IV: 170.

Type Locality: "Southeast of Cape Bowen" ( Nelson, 1909:61) [Possession Bay, Bylot Island, lat. 73E37'N, Canada].

Vernacular Names: Arctic Hare.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) arcticus subsp. arcticus Ross 1819

Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) arcticus subsp. bangsii Rhoads 1896

Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) arcticus subsp. groenlandicus Rhoads 1896

Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) arcticus subsp. monstrabilis Nelson 1934

Distribution: Greenland and Canadian arctic islands southward in open tundra to WC shore of Hudson Bay, thence northwest to the west of Fort Anderson on coast of Arctic Ocean. Isolated populations in tundra of N Quebec and Labrador, and on Newfoundland ( Canada).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Lepus ( Averianov, 1998) . Formerly included in timidus by Gureev (1964), Angermann (1967), Honacki et al. (1982), and Dixon et al. (1983), but considered distinct by Corbet (1978 c), Hall (1981), A. J. Baker et al. (1983), and Flux and Angermann (1990). Reviewed by Best and Henry (1994 a, Mammalian Species, 457).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Lagomorpha

Family

Leporidae

Genus

Lepus

SubGenus

Lepus

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Lepus (Lepus) arcticus Ross 1819

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Lepus (Lepus) arcticus

Ross 1819: 170
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