Lepus brachyurus Temminck 1845
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11333277 |
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Lepus brachyurus Temminck 1845 |
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Lepus brachyurus Temminck 1845 View in CoL
Lepus brachyurus Temminck 1845 View in CoL , in: Siebold, Fauna Japonica, 1 (Mamm.): 44.
Type Locality: "...tout l'Empire mais surtout dans l'île de Jezo", Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan.
Vernacular Names: Japanese Hare.
Subspecies: :
Subspecies Lepus brachyurus subsp. brachyurus Temminck 1845
Subspecies Lepus brachyurus subsp. angustidens Hollister 1912
Subspecies Lepus brachyurus subsp. lyoni Kishida 1937
Subspecies Lepus brachyurus subsp. okiensis Thomas 1906
Distribution: Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Oki Isls and Sado Isl ( Japan).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Subgenus uncertain. Gureev (1964:150) and Gromov and Baranova (1981:63) placed this species in genus Caprolagus , subgenus Allolagus , but Averianov (1998) in subgenus Eulagos ; see also comment under mandshuricus . Hirikawa et al. (1992) analyzed variation in the insular populations of L. b. okiensis. Reviewed by Imaizumi (1970 b).
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