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

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scientific name	Sylvilagus bachmani (Waterhouse, 1839)
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Sylvilagus bachmani (Waterhouse, 1839) View in CoL . 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).

References

Allen, J. A. 1898. Revision of the chickarees, or North American red squirrels (subgenus Tamiasciurus). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 10: 249 - 298.

Chapman, J. A. 1974. Sylvilagus bachmani. Mammalian Species, 34: 1 - 4.

Chapman, J. A., and G. G. Ceballos. 1990. The cottontails. Pp. 95 - 110, in Rabbits, hares and pikas (J. A. Chapman and J. E. C. Flux, eds.). I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 168 pp.

Gureev, A. A. 1964. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 10, Zaitseobraznye (Lagomorpha) [Fauna of the USSR, mammals, vol. 3, pt. 10, Lagomorpha]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 276 pp. (in Russian).

Nelson, E. W. 1909. The rabbits of North America. North American Fauna, 29: 1 - 314.

Robinson, T. J., F. F. B. Elder, and W. Lopez-Forment. 1981. Banding studies in the volcano rabbit, Romerolagus diazi and Crawshay's hare, Lepus crawshayi. Evidence of the leporid ancestral karyotype. Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology, 23: 469 - 474.