Pedetes capensis (Forster 1778)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Pedetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1535-1535 : 1535

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Pedetes capensis (Forster 1778)
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Pedetes capensis (Forster 1778) View in CoL

[Yerbua] capensis Forster 1778 View in CoL , K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm (1), 39: 109.

Type Locality: South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.

Vernacular Names: South African Spring Hare.

Synonyms: Pedetes albaniensis Roberts 1946 ; Pedetes angolae Hinton 1920 ; Pedetes cafer (Pallas 1778) ; Pedetes damarensis Roberts 1926 ; Pedetes fouriei Roberts 1938 ; Pedetes orangiae Wroughton 1907 ; Pedetes salinae Wroughton 1907 ; Pedetes typicus A. Smith 1834 .

Distribution: South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, S Dem. Rep. Congo.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: See Misonne (1974, pt. 6:8); de Graaff (1981:43). According to Matthee and Robinson (1997), there is no proof of the validity of subspecies.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Pedetidae

Genus

Pedetes

Loc

Pedetes capensis (Forster 1778)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Yerbua] capensis

Forster 1778: 109
1778
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