Lepus capensis

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• Description
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• Notes

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,271 meters (0 to 17,293 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 29-Apr-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lepus

There are approximately 241 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. aegyptius · L. alleni (Antelope Jack Rabbit) · L. alleni alleni (Antelope Jack Rabbit) · L. alleni tiburonensis · L. alpinus · L. americanus (Snowshoe Hare) · L. americanus americana · L. americanus americanus (Snowshoe Hare) · L. americanus bairdi · L. americanus bairdii · L. americanus cascadensis · L. americanus dalli · L. americanus dalli macfarlani · L. americanus klamathensis (Snowshoe Hare) · L. americanus macfarlani · L. americanus pallidus · L. americanus phaenotus · L. americanus phaeonotus · L. americanus seclusus (Bighorn Mountain Snowshoe Hare) · L. americanus struthopus · L. americanus tahoensis (Sierra Nevada Snowshoe Hare) · L. americanus virginianus · L. americanus washingtoni · L. americanus washingtonii (Washington Snowshoe Hare) · L. andinus · L. angolensis · L. ansorgei · L. aquaticus · L. arcticus (Arctic Hare) · L. arcticus andersoni · L. arcticus arcticus (Arctic Hare) · L. arcticus bangsii · L. arcticus canus · L. arcticus groenlandicus · L. arcticus monstrabilis · L. atlanticus · L. audubonii · L. bachmani · L. bairdi · L. bairdii · L. benjamini · L. bennettii · L. berberanus · L. brachyurus (Japanese Hare) · L. brachyurus brachyurus (Japanese Hare) · L. brachyurus okiensis · L. brasiliensis · L. californica · L. californicus (Black-Tailed Jack Rabbit) · L. californicus altamirae · L. californicus asellus · L. californicus bennettii (Black-Tailed Jackrabbit) · L. californicus californicus (Black-Tailed Jack Rabbit) · L. californicus deserticola · L. californicus eremicus · L. californicus magdalenae · L. californicus martirensis · L. californicus melanotis · L. californicus merriami · L. californicus sheldoni · L. californicus texianus · L. californicus wallawalla · L. californicus xanti · L. callotis (Beautiful-Eared Jack Rabbit) · L. callotis callotis (Beautiful-Eared Jack Rabbit) · L. callotis flavigularis · L. callotis gaillardi (White-Sided Jackrabbit) · L. callotis gaillardii · L. canopus · L. capensis (European Hare) · L. capensis aegyptius · L. capensis aquilo · L. capensis arabicus · L. capensis atallahi · L. capensis capensis (Brown Hare) · L. capensis europaeus · L. capensis granatensis · L. capensis grantii · L. capensis hawkeri · L. capensis isabellinus · L. capensis langi · L. capensis lehmanni · L. capensis mediterraneus · L. capensis ngamiensis · L. capensis pamirensis · L. capensis sinaiticus · L. capensis swinhoei · L. capensis tibetanus · L. capensis tigrensis · L. capensis tolai · L. castroviejoi (Broom Hare) · L. centrasiaticus · L. chadensis · L. collotis · L. comus (Yunnan Hare) · L. cordeauxi · L. coreanus (Korean Hare) · L. corsicanus (Corsican Hare) · L. crashawi · L. crassicaudatus

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Further Reading

• A study of the mammals of Iran: resulting from the Street Expedition of 1962-63 [by] Douglas M. Lay. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1967. ENG url p. 100, p. 101, p. 104, p. 105, p. 151, p. 154, p. 155, p. 54, p. 69, p. 70, p. 72, p. 75, p. 78, p. 85, p. 86, p. 91, p. 92, p. 93, p. 94, p. 96, p. 98.
• A survey of the mammals of Afghanistan, resulting from the 1965 Street Expedition (excluding bats) [by] Jerry D. Hassinger. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. ENG url p. 179, p. 36, p. 39, p. 40, p. ix.
• African Ixodoidea. l. Ticks of the Sudan... [Washington]1956. ENG url p. 260, p. 378, p. 427, p. 442, p. 525, p. 612, p. 617, p. 674, p. 686.
• Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc., South African Museum, etc.] ENG url p. 236, p. 238.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 264, p. 323, p. 330, p. 433, p. 78.
• Ardea. [Amsterdam, etc., Nederlandse Ornithlogische Unie, etc.] ENG url p. 61.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C., USA. 79.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 164, p. 165, p. 168.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 86, p. 89, p. 99.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 153, p. 211, p. 273, p. 274, p. 275, p. 565, p. 577, p. 584, p. 593, p. 595, p. 609, p. 628, p. 644, p. 647, p. 649, p. 660, p. 664, p. 676, p. 677, p. 700, p. 730, p. 756.
• Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta / by John Anderson, Superintendent of the Indian Museum. Calcutta, 1881-1891. ENG url p. 119.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. ENG url p. 420, p. 420, p. 421, p. 421, p. 422, p. 422, p. 428, p. 428, p. 429, p. 429, p. 430, p. 430, p. 431, p. 431, p. 432, p. 432, p. 433, p. 433.
• Introduction to the mammal survey of the 1965 Street Expedition to Afghanistan [by] Jerry D. Hassinger. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1968. ENG url p. 62.
• Lagomorph Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website
• Le Jardin des plantes: description par m. Boitard; prd'une introd. historique, descriptive et pittoresque par m. J. Janin. Paris: G. Barba, [1851]. FRE url p. 251.
• Natur und Museum. Frankfurt am Main. MUL url p. 28.
• Novitates Zoologicae. London. url p. 84.
• Postilla. New Haven, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1950-2004. ENG url p. 36.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. [Washington, Biological Society of Washington] ENG url p. 35, p. 39.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 474, p. 475, p. 583, p. 595, p. 596, p. 601, p. 602.
• Readings in mammalogy: selected from the original literature and introduced with comments / by J. Knox Jones, Jr. and Sydney Anderson. [Lawrence]Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1970. ENG url p. 366.
• Robert S. Hoffman: Status: Populations have declined locally due to habitat alteration, but most are not threatened so far as is known (Flux and Angermann, 1990)
• Siphonaptera collected during the 1965 Street Expedition to Afghanistan [by] Robert E. Lewis. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. ENG url p. 15.
• Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Wien: K.-K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei in Commission bei Carl Gerold's Sohn, GER url p. 166, p. 167, p. 395.
• South African mammals.: A short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportsmen and travellers / Alwin Haagner; With numerous illustrations. London: H.F. & G. Witherby; 1920. ENG url p. 107.
• Studies in neotropical mammalogy: essays in honor of Philip Hershkovitz / edited by Bruce D. Patterson, Robert M. Timm. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1987. ENG url p. 436, p. 441, p. 501.
• The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai) / Dale J. Osborn, Ibrahim Helmy. [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. ENG url p. 53, p. 84, p. 87, p. 89, p. 90, p. iv, p. x, p. xv.
• Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds). 1993. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.
• Zoologische Jahrbücher. Jena [Germany]: G. Fischer, GER url p. 159, p. 254.
• ude sur les mammifs du Congo frans, par E. de Pousargues. [Paris, G. Masson, 1897?] FRE url p. 125, p. 146, p. 37, p. 38.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 07, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 26 providers.
• Lagomorph Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 20, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 07, 2007:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University of California Museum of Paleontology DiGIR provider
• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• Field Museum, Mammal specimens
• Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, National System of Proetcted Areas
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
• Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, Mammal specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• Michigan State University Museum, Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Texas Tech University
• , Mammal specimens
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens
• University of Alaska Museum of the North, University of Alaska Museum Mammal Collection
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Mammal specimens
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Mammal Specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2479900
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-180117
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13853416
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 180117
• IUCN ID: 41277
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 130508

Footnotes

1. Mean = 358.110 meters (1,174.902 feet), Standard Deviation = 837.160 based on 615 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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