Lepus timidus 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 : 820-821

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scientific name	Lepus timidus Linnaeus, 1758
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Lepus timidus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:57 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE LOCALITY: "in Europa" [Uppsala, Sweden] .

DISTRIBUTION: Palearctic from Scandinavia to E Siberia, except E Chukotsk ( Russia), south to Sakhalin and Sikhote-Alin Mtns ( Russia); Hokkaido ( Japan); Heilungjiang, N Xinjiang ( China); N Mongolia; Altai, N Tien Shan Mtns; N Ukraine, E Poland, and Baltics; isolated populations in the Alps, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Introduced into England, Faeros and Scottish Isis.

STATUS: Populations fluctuate, but none apparently threatened, except perhaps in Alps ( Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: abet Kuroda, 1938; ainu Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; albus Leach, 1816; algidus Pallas, 1778; alpinus Erxleben, 1777 ; altaicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; begitschevi Koljuschev, 1936; borealis Pallas, 1778; breviauritus Hilzheimer, 1906; canescens Nilsson, 1844; collinus Nilsson, 1831; gichiganus J. Allen, 1903; hibernicus Bell, 1837; kamtschaticus Dybowski, 1922 ; kolymensis Ognev, 1923 ; kozhevnikovi Ognev, 1929; lugubris Kastschenko, 1899; lutescens Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; nwrdeni Goodwin, 1933; orii Kuroda, 1928; rubustus Urita, 1935; saghaliensis Abe, 1931; sclavonius Blyth, 1842; scoticus Hilzheimer, 1906; septentrionalis Link, 1795; sibiricorum Johanssen, 1923; sylvaticus Nilsson, 1831 ; transbaicalicus Ognev, 1929; typicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; variabilis Pallas, 1778; varronis Miller, 1901.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lepus ( Gureev, 1964:180) . Formerly included arcticus and othus ; see Corbet (1978c:73); but also see comments under those species. A. J. Baker et al. (1983) found Scottish and Alpine populations morphologically distinct, as well as geographically isolated, from other populations, and Flux (1983) remarked that L. t. scoticus and L. t. hibernicus (from Scotland and Ireland, respectively), both introduced on the island of Mull ( Hewson, 1991) still do not interbreed after 50 years.

References

Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H. 1900. On geographical and individual variation in Mus sylvaticus and its allies. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1900: 387 - 428.

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

Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.

Flux, J. E. C. 1983. Introduction to taxonomic problems in hares. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 174: 7 - 10.

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).

Hewson, R. 1991. Mountain hare / Irish hare. Pp. 161 - 167, in The handbook of British mammals (G. B. Corbet and S. Harris, eds.). Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 588 pp.

Kuroda, N. 1938. A list of the Japanese mammals. Privately published, Tokyo, 122 pp.

Miller, G. S., Jr., and J. A. G. Rehn. 1901. Systematic results of the study of North American land mammals to the close of the year 1900. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 30 (1): 1 - 352.