Sylvilagus bachmani (Waterhouse, 1839)

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 824-825

Sylvilagus bachmani (Waterhouse, 1839) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839:103.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Between Monterey and Santa Barbara". Type locality restricted by Nelson (1909:247) to San Luis Obispo, California, USA .

DISTRIBUTION: W Oregon ( USA) S of Columbia River to Baja California ( Mexico), E to Cascade-Sierra Nevada Range ( USA).

STATUS: "Still quite abundant" ( Chapman and Ceballos, 1990).

SYNONYMS: cerrosensis (J. Allen, 1898) ; cinerascens (J. Allen, 1890) ; exiguus Nelson, 1907; howelli Huey, 1927; macrorhinus Orr, 1935; mariposae Grinnell and Storer, 1916; peninsularis (J. Allen, 1898) ; riparius Orr, 1935; rosaphagus Huey, 1940; tehamae Orr, 1935; trowbridgii Baird, 1855; ubericolor (Miller, 1899); virqulti Dice, 1926.

COMMENTS: Placed in genus Microlagus together with idahoensis by Gureev (1964:171). This is the only species of Sylvilagus known to have retained the putative ancestral karyotype (2n=48) shared by all known Lepus , and by Romerolagus ( Robinson et al., 1981, 1984). Reviewed by Chapman (1974, Mammalian Species, 34).