Lepus sinensis Gray, 1832

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 820

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Lepus sinensis Gray, 1832 View in CoL . Illustr. Indian Zool., 2, pl. 20.

TYPE LOCALITY: " China ". Restricted to vicinity of Canton [Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China] .

DISTRIBUTION: SE China from Yangtse River southward; Taiwan; disjunct in NE Vietnam.

STATUS: Unknown, but probably affected by habitat modification.

SYNONYMS: flaviventris G. Allen, 1927; formosus Thomas, 1908; yuenshanensis Shih, 1930.

COMMENTS: Placed in Caprolagus (Indolagus) by Gureev (1964:143). Formerly included coreanus ; see Corbet (1978c:73); here considered distinct, following Flux and Angermann (1990).

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Flux, J. E. C., and R. Angermann. 1990. The hares and jackrabbits. Pp. 61 - 94, 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).

Shih, C. M. 1930. Preliminary report on the mammals from Yaoshan, Kwangsi, collected by the Yaoshan Expedition, Sun Yatsen University, Canton, China. Bulletin of the Department of Biology, College of Science, Sun Yatsen University, 4: 10 pp.