Northern tapeti

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Northern tapeti [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Sylvilagus
Species:
S. incitatus
Binomial name
Sylvilagus incitatus
(O. Bangs, 1901)
Synonyms

The northern tapeti (Sylvilagus incitatus) is a species of cottontail rabbit related to the Central American tapeti (Sylvilagus gabbi). Its type locality is an island in the Pearl Islands of Panama. [2] Previously it was considered a subspecies of the Central American tapeti, and later of the common tapeti (Sylvilagus brasilensis) from 1950 onwards [4] (though some studies still placed it as a subspecies of S. gabbi [5] ), it was split into its own separate species in 2019, [1] with researchers noting its "bizarre dental anatomy". [2]

The northern tapeti is one of two tapeti species other than the common tapeti located north of the Amazon River, with the other being the Santa Marta tapeti. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sylvilagus incitatus (Bangs, 1901)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Ruedas, Luis A; Silva, Sofia Marques; French, Johnnie H; Platt, Roy Nelson; Salazar-Bravo, Jorge; Mora, José M; Thompson, Cody W (2019-10-22). Rogers, Duke (ed.). "Taxonomy of the Sylvilagus brasiliensis complex in Central and South America (Lagomorpha: Leporidae)". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (5): 1599–1630. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz126. ISSN   0022-2372.
  3. ↑ Nelson, Edward William (1909). The Rabbits of North America. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  4. 1 2 Hershkovitz, Philip (1962). Evolution of neotropical cricetine rodents (Muridae) with special reference to the phyllotine group. [Chicago]: Chicago Natural History Museum. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2781.
  5. ↑ Diersing, V. E. (1981-08-20). "Systematic Status of Sylvilagus brasiliensis and S. insonus from North America" . Journal of Mammalogy. 62 (3): 539–556. doi:10.2307/1380401. ISSN   1545-1542. JSTOR   1380401.
  6. ↑ Smith, Andrew T.; Johnston, Charlotte H.; Alves, Paulo C.; Hackländer, Klaus, eds. (2018). "Sylvilagus brasiliensis sensu stricto". Lagomorphs: Pikas, Rabbits, and Hares of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. doi:10.1353/book.57193. ISBN   978-1-4214-2341-8. LCCN   2017004268.
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