Lepus arcticus Ross 1819
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Leporidae
Lepus
Lepus arcticus

description: <i>Lepus arcticus</i> Ross, 1819. Voy. Discovery, II; ed. 2, App. IV, p. 170. TYPE LOCALITY: "Southeast of Cape Bowen" (Nelson, 1909:61) [Possession Bay, Bylot Island, lat. 73°37'N, Canada]. DISTRIBUTION: Greenland and Canadian arctic islands southward in open tundra to WC shore of Hudson Bay, thence northwestward to the west of Fort Anderson on coast of Arctic Ocean. Isolated populations in tundra of N Quebec and Labrador, and on Newfoundland (Canada). STATUS: Does not appear to be at risk presently (Flux and Angermann, 1990). SYNONYMS: <i>andersoni</i> Nelson, 1934; <i>bangsii</i> Rhoads, 1896; <i>banksicola</i> Manning and Macpherson, 1958; <i>canus</i> Preble, <i>1902; glacialis</i> Leach, 1819; <i>groenlandicus</i> Rhoads, 1896; <i>hubbardi</i> Handley, 1952; <i>hyperboreus</i> Pedersen, 1930; <i>labradorius</i> Miller, 1899; <i>monstrabilis</i> Nelson, 1934; <i>persimilis</i> Nelson, 1934; <i>porsildi</i> Nelson, 1934. COMMENTS: Formerly included in <i>timidus</i> by Gureev (1964), Angermann (1967), Honacki et al. (1982), and Dixon et al. (1983), but considered distinct by Corbet (1978c), Hall (1981), A. J. Baker et al. (1983), and Flux and Angermann (1990). Angermann (in litt., 1992) considered it "probably conspecific" with <i>timidus.</i>
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 page 815, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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