Lepus saharae
Urios, Soria-Boix, & Rguibi Idrissi in Soria-Boix, Donat-Torres, Rguibi Idrissi, & Urios, 2019
West Sahara Hare
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Lagomorpha |
| Family | : Leporidae |
| Genus | : Lepus |
| Subgenus | : incertae sedis |
Species status
Authority citation
Soria-Boix, C., Donat-Torres, M.P., Rguibi Idrissi, H. and Urios, V. 2019. Evolutionary ecology of hares (Lepus spp.) from northwest Africa: the existence of cryptic species and description of a new species (_Lepus saharae_ sp. nov.). Evolutionary Ecology Research 20:537-555.
Original name as described
Lepus saharae
Type material
Laâyoune REF 021/2019 Awserd, Laâyoune REF 022/2019 Awserd
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
"northwest of Aoussard Province, western Sahara, Morocco."
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic · Palearctic
Country distribution
Morocco · Mauritania · Mali · Senegal · Niger? · Burkina Faso?
Taxonomy notes
recently described based on populations previously attributed to L. capensis; this species incorporates portions of the distribution previously applied to L. capensis from North Africa from Morocco to Mali and Mauritania, however, populations from eastern African and Asia are tentatively maintained under L. capensis, although the species likely still represents a species complex
Taxonomy notes citation
Soria-Boix, C., Donat-Torres, M. P., Rguibi Idrissi, H., & Urios, V. (2019). Evolutionary ecology of hares (Lepus spp.) from northwestern Africa; The problem of cryptic species and the description of a new species (Lepus saharae sp. nov.). Evolutionary Ecology Research (Online), 20(5), 537-555.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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