Lepus insularis W. Bryant, 1891

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 818

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scientific name	Lepus insularis W. Bryant, 1891
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Lepus insularis W. Bryant, 1891 View in CoL . Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 3:92.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Espiritu Santo Island, [near La Paz], Gulf of California [Baja California del Sur], Mexico."

DISTRIBUTION: Restricted to the type locality.

STATUS: IUCN - Rare. Occupies very small insular range, but population is stable, and seems in no danger ( Chapman et al., 1983).

SYNONYMS: edwardsi Saint-Loup, 1895.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Proeulagus ( Gureev, 1964:195) . Insular melanic allospecies, related to californicus ; see Hall (1981:328) and Dixon et al. (1983).

Chapman, J. A., K. R. Dixon, W. Lopez-Forment, and D. E. Wilson. 1983. The New World jackrabbits and hares (genus Lepus) 1. Taxonomic history and population status. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 174: 49 - 51.

Dixon, K. R., J. A. Chapman, G. R. Willner, D. E. Wilson and W. Lopez-Forment. 1983. The New World jackrabbits and hares (genus Lepus) -- 2. Numerical taxonomic analysis. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 174: 53 - 56.

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).

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.