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)
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827
book chapter
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Sylvilagus nuttallii
(Bachman, 1837)
.
J. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia
, 7:345
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
"...west of the Rocky Mountains,...streams which flow into the Shoshonee and Columbia rivers"; restricted by
Nelson
(1909:201)
to "eastern
Oregon
, near mouth of Malheur River." Listed by
Bailey (1936)
as "near Vale."
DISTRIBUTION: Intermountain area of North America from S
British Columbia
to S
Saskatchewan
(
Canada
), south to E
California
,
Nevada
, C
Arizona
, and NW
New Mexico
(
USA
).
STATUS:
S. floridanus
appears to be displacing
nuttallii
in SE
North Dakota
; see Genoways and Jones (1972); but elsewhere generally common (
Chapman and Ceballos, 1990
).
SYNONYMS:
artemesia
(Bachman, 1839);
grangeri
(J. Allen, 1895);
perplicatus
Elliott, 1904;
pinetis
(J. Allen, 1894).
COMMENTS: Subgenus
Sylvilagus
(
Gureev, 1964:168
)
. Reviewed by
Chapman (1975a
, Mammalian Species, 56).