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).
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