Order Lagomorpha
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
185
211
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Lepus (Sabanalagus) fagani
Thomas 1902
Lepus (Sabanalagus) fagani
Thomas 1902
,
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1902 (2): 315
.
Type Locality:
"Zegi, Lake Tsana [Tana,
Ethiopia
]
4000 feet
. [
1219 m
]"
.
Vernacular Names:
Ethiopian Hare
.
Distribution:
N and W
Ethiopia
, and adjacent SE
Sudan
, south to extreme NW
Kenya
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Data Deficient.
Discussion:
Subgenus
Sabanalagus
(Avarianov, 1998)
. Formerly included in
crawshayi
(=
victoriae
=
microtis
) by
Gureev (1964:204)
, but
Azzaroli-Puccetti (1987
a
,
b
) maintained its specific identity. Its known distribution is largely allo- or parapatric to that of
microtis
; may be a highland allospecies (
Flux and Angermann, 1990
).