Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 822

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scientific name	Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:58.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in Europa australis" [= Germany] .

DISTRIBUTION: W and S Europe through the Mediterranean region to Morocco and N Algeria; original range probably limited to Iberia and perhaps NW Africa; introduced on all continents except Antarctica and Asia; see Gibb (1990). Worldwide as domesticated forms.

STATUS: The form huxleyi of the Atlantic and Mediterranean isls "may be endangered" ( Gibb, 1990).

SYNONYMS: algirus (Loche, 1858) ; borkumensis Harrison, 1952; brachyotus Trouessart, 1917; campestris (Meyer, 1790) ; cnossius Bate, 1906; fodiens Gray, 1867 ; habetensis Cabrera, 1923; huxleyi Haeckel, 1874 ; kreyenbergi Honigmann, 1913 ; nigripes Bartlett, 1857; oreas Cabrera, 1922; vermicula Gray, 1843 ; vernicularis Thompson, 1837 .

COMMENTS: The specific name is probably based on a feral specimen ( Gibb, 1990).

References

Cabrera, A. 1923. Sobre algunos ratones Marroquies. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, 22: 162 - 170.

Gibb, J. A. 1990. The European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus. Pp. 116 - 120, in Rabbits, hares and pikas (J. A. Chapman and J. E. C. Flux, eds.). I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 168 pp.

Gray, J. E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 216 pp.