Lepus townsendii Bachman, 1839

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 821-822

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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STATUS: Has withdrawn from parts of its southeastern (Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, S Nebraska) distribution, perhaps because of habitat alteration.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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Lagomorpha

Family

Leporidae

Genus

Lepus

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Lepus townsendii Bachman, 1839

Robert S. Hoffmann 1993
1993
Loc

Lepus townsendii

Bachman 1839: 90
1839
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