Order Lagomorpha Author Robert S. Hoffmann text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 807 827 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353088 1-56098-217-9 7353088 Poelagus St. Leger, 1932 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1932(1):119 . TYPE SPECIES: Lepus marjorita St. Leger, 1929 . COMMENTS: Originally spelled Poelagus , but this is a diaeresis and not an umlaut and thus the correct spelling is Poelagus (see art. 32d of the Code of Nomenclature, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1985). Formerly placed as subgenus of Pronolagus ; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:425) ; but see also Petter (1972b:5) . Formerly placed as subgenus of Caprolagus ; see Gureev (1964:152) .