Order Lagomorpha Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 595 604 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353003 0-89327-235-3 7353003 Lepus capensis Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:58 . TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa , Cape of Good Hope . DISTRIBUTION: Africa (in non-forested areas); open woodland, steppe and subdesert of the Palearctic from S. Sweden and Finland to Britain (introduced to Ireland ), through Europe to the West Siberian Lowlands, Mongolia , China , Iran , and Arabia; also introduced into North and South America, and Australasia. COMMENT: Includes arabicus, cyanotis, europaeus , starcki , tibetanus, tolai, and atlanticus; see Corbet, 1978:71. JECF and OLR doubt that europaeus is a subspecies of capensis ; see Angermann, 1972 , in Grzimek, ed., Anim. Life Encyclop., 12: 432. L. starcki may also be a full species (JECF). Most Russian authors consider tolai (including tibetanus) a distinct species; see Gromov and Baranova, 1981:65 . Sludskii et al., 1980:58 , 85, indicated an area of sympatry between europaeus and tolai in Kazakhstan . Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:85 , considered tibetanus a distinct species. ISIS NUMBER: 5301409002002007001 as L. capensis . 5301409002002009001 as L. europaeus .