Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus J. A. Allen 1890
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Leporidae
Sylvilagus
Sylvilagus floridanus

description: Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus J. A. Allen 1890
Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus J. A. Allen 1890, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3: 160.
Type Locality: "Sebastian River, Brevard Co.," [Florida, USA].
Vernacular Names: Eastern Cottontail.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. floridanus J. A. Allen 1890
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. alacer Bangs 1896
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. chapmani J. Allen 1899
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. holzneri Mearns 1896
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. mallurus Thomas 1898
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. aztecus J. Allen 1890
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. connectens Nelson 1904
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. hondurensis Goldman 1932
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. macrocorpus Diersing and Wilson 1980
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. orizabae Merriam 1893
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. yucatanicus Miller 1899
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. avius Osgood 1910
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. cumanicus Thomas 1897
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. margaritae Miller 1898
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. nigronuchalis Hartert 1894
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. orinoci Thomas 1900
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. purgatus Thomas 1920
Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) floridanus subsp. superciliaris J. Allen 1899
Distribution: N, C, and W Venezuela (including adjacent islands) and adjacent Colombia through Central America (disjunct in part); to NW Mexico, Arizona, north and east to North Dakota, Minnesota, N Michigan, New York and Massachusetts, Atlantic Coast south and Florida Gulf Coast (USA) west to Mexico; also S Saskatchewan, S Ontario and SC Quebec (C Canada).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Subgenus Sylvilagus (Gureev, 1964:164). Widely introduced in North America (Hall, 1981:301) and Europe (Flux et al., 1990). Formerly included robustus (Bailey, 1905) and cognatus Nelson, 1907. Ruedas (1998) stated "...at least three of the subspecies [of floridanus] (cognatus, holzneri, and robustus) traditionally ascribed to S. floridanus are of species rank." However, he did not formally raise the first two to full species, as he did for robustus. Reviewed by Chapman et al. (1980, Mammalian Species, 136). See also cognatus and robustus; holzneri is provisionally retained as a subspecies of floridanus, since its relationship to Mexican populations of floridanus have not been reported yet. Allozymes described by Cervantes et al. (1999 a).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 185-211 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 209, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519