Lepus capensis Linnaeus, 1758

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 815-816

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353088

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7281130

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C061D547-FFC7-0059-FF2B-CC608994F8E3

treatment provided by

GgServerImporter

scientific name

Lepus capensis Linnaeus, 1758
status

 

Lepus capensis Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Sys. Nat., 10th ed., 1:58 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE LOCALITY: "ad Cap. b. Spei" [ South Africa, Cape of Good Hope] .

DISTRIBUTION: Africa in two separate, non-forested areas: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, S Angola, S Zambia (?), Mozambique; and to the north, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, countries of the Sahel and Sahara, and N Africa; thence eastward through the Sinai to the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, S Syria, S Israel and W and S Iraq, west of the Euphrates River.

STATUS: Populations have declined locally due to habitat alteration, but most are not threatened so far as is known ( Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: abbotti Hollister, 1918; abyssinicus Lefebvre, 1850; aegyptius Desmarest, 1822; aethiopicus Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1832; aquilo Thomas and Wroughton, 1907; arabicus Ehrenberg, 1833; arenarius I. Geoffroy, 1826; atallahi Harrison, 1972; atlanticus de Winton, 1898; barcaeus Ghigi, 1920; bedfordi Roberts, 1932; berberanus Heuglin, 1861; carpi Lundholm, 1955; centralis Thomas, 1903; cheesmani Thomas, 1921; crispii Drake-Brockman, 1911; dinderus Setzer, 1956; ermeloensis Roberts, 1932; granti Thomas and Schwann, 1904; habessinicus Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1832 ; hartensis Roberts, 1932; harterti Thomas, 1903; hawkeri Thomas, 1901; innesi de Winton, 1902; isabellinus Cretzschmar, 1826; jeffreyi Harrison, 1980; kabylicus de Winton, 1898; kalaharicus Dollman, 1910; langi Roberts, 1932; major Grill, 1860; mandatus Thomas, 1926; maroccanus Cabrera, 1907; narranus Thomas, 1926; ochropoides Roberts, 1929; ochropus Wagner, 1844; omanensis Thomas, 1894; pallidior Barrett-Hamilton, 1898; pediaeus Cabrera, 1923; rothschildi de Winton, 1902; salai Jentink, 1880; schlumbergeri Remy-St. Loup, 1894; sefranus Thomas, 1913; senegalensis ( Rochebrune, 1883); sherif Cabrera, 1906; sinaiticus Ehrenberg, 1833; somalensis Heuglin, 1861; tigrensis Blanford, 1869; tunetae de Winton, 1898; vernayi Roberts, 1932; whitakeri Thomas, 1902.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Proeulagus ( Gureev, 1964:202) . Includes arabicus; formerly included europaeus , corsicanus , granatensis , and tolai ; see Corbet (1978c:71), Angermann (1983:20), and Harrison and Bates (1991). Includes habessinicus , but see AzzaroliPuccetti (1987a, b) who considered habessinicus as distinct. The enigmatic form connori, often placed in capensis ( Corbet, 1978c; Harrison and Bates, 1991) is provisionally placed in europaeus on the basis of pelage characteristics; see Angermann (1983:19). Most Russian authors consider tolai (including tibetanus ) a distinct species; see Gromov and Baranova (1981:65); but also see Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:229). Sludskii et al. (1980:58, 85) indicated an area of sympatry between europaeus and tolai in Kazakhstan. Sokolov and Orlov (1980:85) considered tibetanus a distinct species. Some Arabian forms may be specifically distinct ( Flux and Angermann, 1990); Angermann (1983: 19) noted pronounced "size" groups within arabicus. These are arabicus (largest, gray), cheesmani (with insular atallahi) (smaller, buffy), and omanensis (with insular jeffreyi) (smallest, gray).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Lagomorpha

Family

Leporidae

Genus

Lepus

Loc

Lepus capensis Linnaeus, 1758

Robert S. Hoffmann 1993
1993
Loc

Lepus capensis

Linnaeus 1758: 58
1758
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF