Lepus cornus Allen, 1927

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 816

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Lepus cornus Allen, 1927 . Am. Mus. Novit., No 284:9.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Teng-yueh [Tengueh], Yunnan Province, China, 5,500 feet altitude."

DISTRIBUTION: Yunnan, W Guizhou ( China).

STATUS: Probably secure at present ( Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: peni Wang and Luo, 1985; pygmaeus Wang and Feng, 1985.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in oiostolus ; see Corbet (1978c). Elevated to specific status by Cai and Feng (1982) and Wang et al. (1985), on the basis of morphological and ecological differences. May be allo- or parapatric with oiostolus . Possibly related to nigricollis ( Flux and Angermann, 1990) .

References

Cai Gui-quan, and Feng Zuo-jiang. 1982. [A systematic revision of the subspecies of highland hare (Lepus oiostolus) -- including two new subspecies]. Acta Theriologica Sinica, 2: 7 - 182 (in Chinese).

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.

Wang Ying-xiang, Luo Ze-xun, and Feng Zuo-jiang. 1985. [Taxonomic revision of Yunnan hare, Lepus comus G. Allen, with description of two new subspecies.] Zoological Research, 6: 101 - 109 (in Chinese).