Sylvilagus sanctaemartae

Hershkovitz, 1950

Santa Marta Tapeti

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Hershkovitz, P. 1950-05-26. Mammals of northern Colombia. Preliminary report No. 6: Rabbits (Leporidae), with notes on the classification and distribution of the South American forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 100(3265):327-375.

Original name as described

Sylvilagus brasiliensis sanctaemartae

Type material

USNM:MAMM:279993

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Colonia Agricola de Caracolicito, Rio Ariguani, S slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena Department, Colombia, 335 m a.s.l.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia

Taxonomy notes

split from S. brasiliensis

Taxonomy notes citation

Ruedas, LA, Silva, SM, French, JH, Platt, RN, Salazar-Bravo, J., Mora, JM, & Thompson, CW (2019). Taxonomy of the Sylvilagus brasiliensis complex in Central and South America (Lagomorpha: Leporidae). Journal of Mammalogy , 100 (5), 1599-1630.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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