Lepus victoriae Thomas 1893
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Leporidae
Lepus
Lepus victoriae

description: <i>Lepus victoriae</i> Thomas, 1893. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 12:268. TYPE LOCALITY: "Nassa, Speke Gulf, S. Victoria Nyanza" [Lake, Tanzania]. DISTRIBUTION: From Atlantic coast of NW Africa (Spanish Sahara, Mauritania, south to Guinea and Sierra Leone) eastward across Sahel to Sudan and extreme W Ethiopia; southward through E Africa (E Congo, W Kenya) to NE Namibia, Botswana, and Natal (South Africa). Small isolated population in W Algeria. STATUS: Isolated population around Beni Abbés, Algeria, "deservefs] attention" (Flux and Angermann, 1990). SYNONYMS: <i>angolensis</i> Thomas, 1904; <i>ansorgei</i> Thomas and Wroughton, 1905; <i>canopus</i> Thomas and Hinton, 1921; <i>chadensis</i> Thomas and Wroughton, 1907; <i>cordeauxi</i> DrakeBrockman, 1911; <i>crawshayi</i> de Winton, 1899; <i>herero</i> Thomas, 1926; <i>kakumegae</i> Heller, 1912; <i>meridionalis</i> Monard, 1933; <i>micklemi</i> Chubb, 1908; <i>microtis</i> Heuglin, 1865; <i>raineyi</i> Heller, 1912; <i>whytei</i> Thomas, 1894; <i>zairensis</i> Hatt, 1935; <i>zechi</i> Matschie, 1899; <i>zuluensis</i> Thomas and Schwann, 1905. COMMENTS: Placed (as <i>crawshayi)</i> in subgenus <i>Proeulagus by Gureev (1964:204)</i>, who recognized both <i>crawshayi</i> and <i>whytei</i> as distinct species, as did Azzaroli-Puccetti (1987«). Formerly included in <i>saxatilis; see</i> comments under that species. Angermann and Feiler (1988) demonstrated that the oldest available name for this species is <i>victoriae.</i> It is widely sympatric with <i>capensis,</i> but allo- to parapatric with <i>saxatilis,</i> which is also sympatric with <i>capensis.</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 822, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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