Lepus mandshuricus Radde 1861
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Leporidae
Lepus
Lepus mandshuricus

description: <i>Lepus mandshuricus</i> Radde, 1861. Melanges Biol. Acad. St. Petersbourg, 3:684. TYPE LOCALITY: "Im Chy(Gebirge)" Bureya Mtns [Khabarovsk Krai, Russia]. DISTRIBUTION: Ussuri region (Russia); NE China; extreme NE Korea. STATUS: Undetermined. SYNONYMS: <i>melainus</i> Li and Luo, 1979; <i>melanonotus</i> Ognev, 1922. COMMENTS: Distinct from <i>brachyurus;</i> see Angermann (1966, 1983); but placed in <i>Caprolagus (Allolagus) brachyurus</i> by Gureev (1964:150); followed by Gromov and Baranova (1981:63). Melanic individuals known since at least the time of Sowerby (1923) have recently been given the specific designation <i>melainus</i> (Li and Luo, 1979). The range of this taxon is entirely within that of <i>mandshuricus,</i> and I provisionally retain them in that species, although Flux and Angermann (1990) recognized <i>melainus. L. mandshuricus</i> and L. <i>coreanus</i> are parapatric in distribution in NE Korea /SE Heilungjiang, but are described as occupying different habitats; the former, mixed forest in hilly country, the latter, both forest and cultivated land, primarily in the plains (Flux and Angermann, 1990). Moreover, <i>mandshuricus</i> is sympatric with another forest species, <i>timidus,</i> and with the plains species, <i>tolai;</i> as forest is cleared, <i>tolai</i> tends to replace <i>mandshuricus</i> (Flux and Angermann, 1990). L. <i>mandshuricus</i> <i>, L. timidus</i> and <i>L. tolai</i> all occur in the area occupied by the taxon <i>melainus;</i> four species of sympatric hares, three of them forest-dwellers, is unprecedented in hare ecology, and supports the view that <i>melainus</i> is not a distinct species.
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 818-819, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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