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 palustris
(Bachman, 1837)
.
J. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia
, 7:194
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
"...
South Carolina
...never...more than fourty miles from the sea coast"; restricted by
Miller and Rehn (1901:183)
to E
South Carolina
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Florida
to SE
Virginia
(Dismal Swamp) (
USA
) in coastal lowlands.
STATUS:
U.S.
ESA - Endangered as S.
p. hefneri;
IUCN - Endangered as S.
p. hefneri;
other populations indeterminate (
Chapman and Ceballos, 1990
).
SYNONYMS:
douglasii
(
Gray, 1837
);
hefneri
Lazell, 1984;
paludicola
(Miller and Bangs, 1894)
.
COMMENTS: Subgenus
Tapeti
(
Gureev, 1964:162
)
. S.
aquaticus
and
S. palustris
share a derived karyotype, 2n=38 (Robinson et al., 1983, 1984). Reviewed by
Chapman and Willner (1981
, Mammalian Species, 153).