Mediterranean hare
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| Mediterranean hare | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | Lepus |
| Species: | L. mediterraneus
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| Binomial name | |
| Lepus mediterraneus J. A. Wagner, 1841
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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The Mediterranean hare (Lepus mediterraneus), also known as the Northwest African hare and the Sardinian hare, is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae.[2] It was first described in 1841 by Johann Andreas Wagner.[3] Later, it was reclassified as a subspecies of the Cape hare (Lepus capensis), but was split in 2019 along with the Moroccan hare (Lepus schlumbergeri) from central Morocco and the West Sahara hare (Lepus saharae) from southern Morocco.[2] The species has many synonyms, and likely represents a species complex.[1]
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