Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii (Bachman 1837)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 185-211 : 210

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DOI

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scientific name

Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii (Bachman 1837)
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Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii (Bachman 1837) View in CoL

[Lepus] nuttallii Bachman 1837 View in CoL , J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 345.

Type Locality: "...west of the Rocky Mountains,...streams which flow into the Shoshonee and Columbia rivers"; restricted by Nelson (1909:201) to "eastern Oregon, near mouth of Malheur River." Listed by Bailey (1936) as "near Vale." .

Vernacular Names: Mountain Cottontail.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii subsp. nuttallii Bachman 1837

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii subsp. grangeri J. Allen 1895

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii subsp. pinetis J. Allen 1894

Distribution: Intermountain area of North America from S British Columbia to S Saskatchewan ( Canada), south to E California, Nevada, C Arizona, and NW New Mexico ( USA).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Sylvilagus ( Gureev, 1964:168) . This species is closely allopatric with S. floridanus where the two species ranges meet across the N and C Great Plains (see map 223, Hall, 1981), and in the Southwestern USA ( Hoffmeister and Lee, 1963 b). Reviewed by Chapman (1975 a, Mammalian Species, 56).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Lagomorpha

Family

Leporidae

Genus

Sylvilagus

Loc

Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii (Bachman 1837)

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

[Lepus] nuttallii

Bachman 1837: 345
1837
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