Lepus arcticus Ross, 1819

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

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Lepus arcticus Ross, 1819
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Lepus arcticus Ross, 1819 View in CoL . Voy. Discovery, II; ed. 2, App. IV, p. 170.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Southeast of Cape Bowen" ( Nelson, 1909:61) [Possession Bay, Bylot Island, lat. 73°37'N, Canada] .

DISTRIBUTION: Greenland and Canadian arctic islands southward in open tundra to WC shore of Hudson Bay, thence northwestward to the west of Fort Anderson on coast of Arctic Ocean. Isolated populations in tundra of N Quebec and Labrador, and on Newfoundland ( Canada).

STATUS: Does not appear to be at risk presently ( Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: andersoni Nelson, 1934; bangsii Rhoads, 1896; banksicola Manning and Macpherson, 1958; canus Preble, 1902; glacialis Leach, 1819; groenlandicus Rhoads, 1896 ; hubbardi Handley, 1952; hyperboreus Pedersen, 1930 ; labradorius Miller, 1899 ; monstrabilis Nelson, 1934; persimilis Nelson, 1934; porsildi Nelson, 1934.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in timidus by Gureev (1964), Angermann (1967), Honacki et al. (1982), and Dixon et al. (1983), but considered distinct by Corbet (1978c), Hall (1981), A. J. Baker et al. (1983), and Flux and Angermann (1990). Angermann (in litt., 1992) considered it "probably conspecific" with timidus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Lagomorpha

Family

Leporidae

Genus

Lepus

Loc

Lepus arcticus Ross, 1819

Robert S. Hoffmann 1993
1993
Loc

Lepus arcticus

Ross 1819: 170
1819
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