Lepus hainanus Swinhoe, 1870

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 818

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scientific name

Lepus hainanus Swinhoe, 1870
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Lepus hainanus Swinhoe, 1870 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870:233.

TYPE LOCALITY: Hainan Island, "in the neighbourhood of the capital city" [Hainan Province, China] .

DISTRIBUTION: Lowlands of Hainan Island.

STATUS: Numbers reduced to extremely low levels by habitat alteration and overhunting, but no official status as yet conferred.

SYNONYMS: Monotypic.

COMMENTS: Placed in Caprolagus (Indolagus) by Gureev (1964:146). Considered a subspecies of pequensis by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951); Flux and Angermann (1990) recommended provisional specific status, as did Gureev (1964). Closely related to nigricollis (Angermann, in litt., 1992).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Lagomorpha

Family

Leporidae

Genus

Lepus

Loc

Lepus hainanus Swinhoe, 1870

Robert S. Hoffmann 1993
1993
Loc

Lepus hainanus

Swinhoe 1870: 233
1870
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