Lepus schlumbergeri
Saint-Loup, 1894
Moroccan Hare
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Lagomorpha |
| Family | : Leporidae |
| Genus | : Lepus |
| Subgenus | : incertae sedis |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Authority citation
Saint-Loup, R. 1894. Sur une espèce marocaine du genre Lepus (_Lepus schlumbergeri_, nova species). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 19:168-171.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3070981Original name as described
Lepus Schlumbergeri
Other common names
Schlumberger's Hare
Type locality
Yerf-el-Acaab, El Fahs, Morocco.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
Morocco · Mauritania?
Taxonomy notes
split from L. capensis
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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