Lepus cornus Allen, 1927

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

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Lepus cornus Allen, 1927 . Am. Mus. Novit., No 284:9.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Teng-yueh [Tengueh], Yunnan Province, China, 5,500 feet altitude."

DISTRIBUTION: Yunnan, W Guizhou ( China).

STATUS: Probably secure at present ( Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: peni Wang and Luo, 1985; pygmaeus Wang and Feng, 1985.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in oiostolus ; see Corbet (1978c). Elevated to specific status by Cai and Feng (1982) and Wang et al. (1985), on the basis of morphological and ecological differences. May be allo- or parapatric with oiostolus . Possibly related to nigricollis ( Flux and Angermann, 1990) .