Pronolagus saundersiae
Hewitt, 1927
Hewitt'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
Authority citation
Hewitt, J. 1927-07-31. On several new rodents in the Albany Museum. Records of the Albany Museum 3(5):430-440.
Authority publication link
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924056331477?urlappend=%3Bseq=494%3Bownerid=120241092-498Original name as described
Pronolagus crassicaudatus saundersiae
Type material
AMG (number not known)
Type kind
syntypes
Type locality
"Albany District," Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
South Africa · Lesotho · Eswatini
Taxonomy notes
split from P. rupestris
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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