Lepus timidus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Leporidae
Lepus
Lepus timidus

description: <i>Lepus timidus</i> Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:57. 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: <i>abet</i> Kuroda, 1938; <i>ainu</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; <i>albus</i> Leach, 1816; <i>algidus</i> Pallas, 1778; <i>alpinus</i> Erxleben, 1777; <i>altaicus</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; <i>begitschevi</i> Koljuschev, 1936; <i>borealis</i> Pallas, 1778; <i>breviauritus</i> Hilzheimer, 1906; <i>canescens</i> Nilsson, 1844; <i>collinus</i> Nilsson, 1831; <i>gichiganus</i> J. Allen, 1903; <i>hibernicus</i> Bell, 1837; <i>kamtschaticus</i> Dybowski, 1922; <i>kolymensis</i> Ognev, 1923; <i>kozhevnikovi</i> Ognev, 1929; <i>lugubris</i> Kastschenko, 1899; <i>lutescens</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; <i>nwrdeni</i> Goodwin, 1933; <i>orii</i> Kuroda, 1928; <i>rubustus</i> Urita, 1935; <i>saghaliensis</i> Abe, 1931; <i>sclavonius</i> Blyth, 1842; <i>scoticus</i> Hilzheimer, 1906; <i>septentrionalis</i> Link, 1795; <i>sibiricorum</i> Johanssen, 1923; <i>sylvaticus</i> Nilsson, 1831; <i>transbaicalicus Ognev,</i> 1929; <i>typicus</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; <i>variabilis</i> Pallas, 1778; <i>varronis</i> Miller, 1901. COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Lepus</i> (Gureev, 1964:180). Formerly included <i>arcticus</i> and <i>othus; see</i> Corbet (1978c:73); but also see comments under those species. A. <i>J.</i> Baker et al. (1983) found Scottish and Alpine populations morphologically distinct, as well as geographically isolated, from other populations, and Flux (1983) remarked that <i>L. t. scoticus</i> and <i>L. t. hibernicus</i> (from Scotland and Ireland, respectively), both introduced on the island of Mull (Hewson, 1991) still do not interbreed after 50 years.
description: Published as part of <i>Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 807-827 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on pages 820-821, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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