Lepus sinensis Gray, 1832

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 820

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Lepus sinensis Gray, 1832 View in CoL . Illustr. Indian Zool., 2, pl. 20.

TYPE LOCALITY: " China ". Restricted to vicinity of Canton [Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China] .

DISTRIBUTION: SE China from Yangtse River southward; Taiwan; disjunct in NE Vietnam.

STATUS: Unknown, but probably affected by habitat modification.

SYNONYMS: flaviventris G. Allen, 1927; formosus Thomas, 1908; yuenshanensis Shih, 1930.

COMMENTS: Placed in Caprolagus (Indolagus) by Gureev (1964:143). Formerly included coreanus ; see Corbet (1978c:73); here considered distinct, following Flux and Angermann (1990).