Lepus saxatilis F. Cuvier 1823
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Leporidae
Lepus
Lepus saxatilis

description: <i>Lepus saxatilis</i> F. Cuvier, 1823. Diet. Sci. Nat., 26:309. TYPE LOCALITY: "il habite les contrées qui se trouvent à trois journées au nord du cap de Bonne-Espérance," [Cape of Good Hope, South Africa]. DISTRIBUTION: Cape Province (and Zululand north to C Natal?) (South Africa) and S Namibia. STATUS: Appears common (Flux and Angermann, 1990), but this is uncertain (Angermann, in litt., 1992). SYNONYMS: <i>albaniensis</i> Roberts, 1932; <i>aurantii</i> Thomas and Hinton, 1923; <i>bechuanae</i> Roberts, 1932; <i>chiversi</i> Roberts, 1929; <i>chobiensis</i> Roberts, 1932; <i>damarensis</i> Roberts, 1926; <i>fumigatus</i> Wagner, 1844; <i>gungunyanae</i> Roberts, 1914; <i>khanensis</i> Roberts, 1946; <i>longicaudatus</i> Gray, 1837; <i>megalotis</i> Thomas and Schwann, 1905; <i>ngamiensis</i> Roberts, 1932; <i>nigrescens</i> Roberts, 1932; <i>orangensis</i> Kolbe, 1948; <i>rufinucha</i> A. Smith, 1829; <i>subrufus</i> Roberts, 1913; <i>timidus</i> A. Smith, 1826. COMMENTS: Placed by Gureev (1964:203) in subgenus <i>Proeulagus.</i> Formerly included <i>crawshayi</i> and <i>whytei,</i> see Ansell (1978:67), Swanepoel et al. (1980:159), and Robinson and Dippenaar (1983 b, 1987); but see also Petter (1961, 1972b). Angermann (1983) considered <i>whytei</i> a distinct species that includes <i>crawshayi;</i> Flux and Angermann (1990) placed both as subspecies of <i>victoriae.</i> Angermann (in litt., 1992) would restrict <i>saxatilis</i> to the following taxa: <i>albaniensis, aurantii, chiversi, fumigatus, longicaudatus, megalotis, rufinucha,</i> and <i>timidus;</i> transfering the remainder to <i>victoriae.</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 820, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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