Lepus nigricollis F. Cuvier, 1823

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 819

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scientific name	Lepus nigricollis F. Cuvier, 1823
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Lepus nigricollis F. Cuvier, 1823 View in CoL . Diet. Sci. Nat., 26:307.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Malabar" [Madras, India].

DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan; India; Bangladesh, except Sunderbands; Sri Lanka; introduced into Java (?) and Mauritius, Gunnera Quoin, Anskya, Réunion and Cousin Isis in the Indian Ocean. Considered native to Java by McNeely (1981:931).

STATUS: Mainland (and Sri Lankan?) populations secure ( Flux and Angermann, 1990). If nigricollis is native to Java (rather than an introduced population), its numbers are now very low there.

SYNONYMS: aryabertensis Hodgson, 1844; cutchensis Kloss, 1918 ; dayanus Blanford, 1874 ; joongshaiensis Murray, 1884 ; macrotus Hodgson, 1840 ; mahadeva Wroughton and Ryley, 1913 ; rajput Wroughton, 1917 ; ruficaudatus Geoffroy, 1826 ; sadiya Kloss, 1918; simcoxi Wroughton, 1912 ; singhala Wroughton, 1915; tytleri Tytler, 1854 .

COMMENTS: Placed in Caprolagus (Indolagus) by Gureev (1964:139). Includes ruficaudatus ; see Prater (1980) and Angermann (1983), but see Gureev (1964: 142); ruficaudatus is closer to capensis according to Petter (1961), and nigricollis may include whytei, crawshayi , pequensis and siamensis; but also see comments under pequensis and saxatilis . Also includes dayanus , given specific status by Gureev (1964:139).