Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Leporinae according to M. R. Dawson 1958
See also Fischer de Waldheim 1817, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Illiger 1811, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Leidy 1860, Linnaeus 1758, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Schultz and Howard 1935
Sister taxa: Alilepus, Brachylagus, Caprolagus, Nesolagus, Oryctolagus, Pentalagus, Pliolagus, Pliosiwalagus, Pratilepus, Pronolagus, Romerolagus, Serengetilagus
Subtaxa: Lepus alleni Lepus americanus Lepus arcticus Lepus benjamini Lepus californicus Lepus callotis Lepus capensis Lepus ennisianus Lepus europaeus Lepus othus Lepus somaliensis Lepus timidus Lepus townsendii Lepus whytei
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (27: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), the Czech Republic (3), Egypt (13), Ethiopia (5), France (4), Georgia (1), Germany (7), Greece (10), Greenland (21), Hungary (7), Israel (2), Italy (20), Japan (2), Kenya (7), Libya (1), Mexico (7), Morocco (6), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Reunion (1), Romania (12), the Russian Federation (5), South Africa (22), Spain (10), Sudan (4), Swaziland (3), Tanzania (2), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (102: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming), Zambia (1)
• Blancan of Greenland (1), Mexico (1), United States (2: California, Nebraska)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Greece (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (2), Morocco (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Moldova (3), Ukraine (2)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Oregon, South Dakota)
Total: 349 collections including 371 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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