Lepus townsendii Bachman, 1839
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Lepus townsendii Bachman, 1839 View in CoL . J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8(1):90.
TYPE LOCALITY: " ...on the Walla-walla...river"; restricted by Nelson (1909:78) to Fort Walla Walla, [near present town of Wallula, Walla Walla Co., Washington].
DISTRIBUTION: C Alberta and Saskatchewan east to extreme SW Ontario ( Canada), south to SW Wisconsin, Iowa, NW Missouri, west through C Kansas to NC New Mexico, west to C Nevada, EC California ( USA) and north to SC British Columbia ( Canada).
STATUS: Has withdrawn from parts of its southeastern (Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, S Nebraska) distribution, perhaps because of habitat alteration. Stable in remainder of range ( Flux and Angermann, 1990).
SYNONYMS: campanius Hollister, 1915; campestris Bachman, 1837 ; sierrae Merriam, 1904.
COMMENTS: Placed (as campestris ) in subgenus Proeulagus by Gureev (1964:190). Reviewed by Lim (1987, Mammalian Species, 288).
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