Pronolagus rupestris

(A. Smith, 1834)

Smith's Red Rock Hare

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Lagomorpha
Family : Leporidae
Genus : Pronolagus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Smith, A. 1834. African Zoology. South African Quarterly Journal (2)2(3):169-192.

Original name as described

Lepus rupestris

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1845.7.3.8

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"South Africa, rocky situations." Refined by R. S. Hoffman and A. T. Smith in 2005 to "probably Van Rhynsdorp District, Western Cape Province, South Africa."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Kenya · Tanzania · Zambia · Malawi · Namibia · South Africa

Taxonomy notes

previously included P. saundersiae

Taxonomy notes citation

Robinson, T. J. and Matthee, C. A. (2005). Phylogeny and evolutionary origins of the Leporidae: a review of cytogenetics, molecular analyses and a supermatrix analysis. Mammal Review. 35 (3–4): 241.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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