The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Colugos, Treeshrews and Lagomorphs

Sylvilagus


Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani)

The range of this species extends throughout the western coastline of North America, from western Oregon in the north, to Baja California Sur in the south.

Thirteen subspecies are recognised:

S. b. bachmani
S. b. cerrosensis
S. b. cinerascens
S. b. exiguus
S. b. howelli
S. b. macrorhinus
S. b. mariposae
S. b. peninsularis
S. b. riparius - Photo by @Giant Eland



S. b. rosaphagus
S. b. tehamae
S. b. ubericolor
S. b. virgulti


San Jose Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus mansuetus)

Endemic to southwest Isla San José, off the eastern coastline of Baja California Sur.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audobonii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southwest and central USA, and into northern and northwest Mexico.

Twelve subspecies are recognised:

S. a. audobonii - photo by @Great Argus



S. a. arizonae
S. a. baileyi
S. a. cedrophilus
S. a. confinis
S. a. goldmani
S. a. minor - photo by @Giant Eland



S. a. neomexicanus
S. a. parvulus
S. a. sanctidiegi - photo by @Coelacanth18



S. a. vallicola - photo by @ThylacineAlive



S. a. warreni - photo by @Giant Eland




Mountain Cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttallii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the Great Basin of western North America, from southwest British Columbia in the west to south-central Sasketchawan in the east, and south throughout west-central USA to east-central California in the west and northwest New Mexico in the east.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. n. nuttallii
S. n. grangeri
S. n. pinetis - photo by @Giant Eland




New England Cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout coastal northeast USA, from southern Maine in the north to Rhode Island in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Swamp Rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of south-central USA, from southeast Kansas in the west to western North Carolina in the east, and south to the Gulf Coast from southeast Texas in the west to southwest Alabama in the east.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. a. aquaticus - photo by @Giant Eland



S. a. littoralis


Marsh Rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal southeast USA from southeast Virginia in the north to southern Florida in the south.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. p. palustris
S. p. hefneri
S. p. paludicola - photo by @Maguari




Omilteme Cottontail (Sylvilagus insonus)

The range of this species is restricted to a tiny portion of Omilteme State Ecological Park in southwest Mexico.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Common Tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis)

The range of this species extends throughout much of northern and central South America, from northwest Colombia in the west to northeast Brazil and the Guianas in the east, and south to northern Argentina, Paraguay and southeast Brazil in the south.

Nineteen subspecies are recognised:

S. b. brasiliensis
S. b. andinus
S. b. apollinaris
S. b. capsalis
S. b. caracasensis
S. b. chillae
S. b. chotanus
S. b. defillipi
S. b. fulvescens
S. b. gibsoni
S. b. inca
S. b. kellogi
S. b. meridensis
S. b. minensis
S. b. paraguensis
S. b. peruanus
S. b. sanctamartae
S. b. surdaster
S. b. tapetillus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Central American Tapeti (Sylvilagus gabbi)

The range of this species extends throughout much of Central America, from eastern Mexico in the north to southeast Panama in the south; absent from the Yucatan.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. g. gabbi
S. g. truei

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Venezuelan Lowland Rabbit (Sylvilagus varynaensis)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of the east-central lowlands of Venezuela.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Dice's Cottontail (Sylvilagus dicei)

Endemic to the Cordillera de Talamanca of western Panama and south-central Costa Rica.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Mexican Cottontail (Sylvilagus cunicularius)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southwest and south-central Mexico.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. c. cunicularius
S. c. insolitus
S. c. pacificus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Tres Marias Cottontail (Sylvilagus graysoni)

Endemic to the Islas Marías archipelago, off the southwest coastline of Mexico.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of central and eastern USA, south into Mexico and Central America, and also patchily throughout northern Colombia and Venezuela into the Netherlands Antilles. Introduced populations are present in southwest Canada and northwest USA, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and northern Italy.

Thirty-one subspecies are currently recognised; however this figure is likely to be an over-estimate and requires extensive reassessment:

S. f. floridanus - photo by @ThylacineAlive



S. f. alacer - photo by @jbnbsn99



S. f. ammophilus
S. f. avius
S. f. aztecus
S. f. chapmani
S. f. chiapensis
S. f. connectens
S. f. continentis
S. f. costaricensis
S. f. cumanicus
S. f. hesperius
S. f. hitchensi
S. f. holzneri
S. f. hondurensis
S. f. llanensis
S. f. macrocorpus
S. f. mallurus - photo by @Pleistohorse



S. f. margaritae
S. f. mearnsii - photo by @Giant Eland



S. f. nigronuchalis
S. f. orinoci
S. f. orizabae
S. f. paulsoni
S. f. purgatus
S. f. restrictus
S. f. russatus
S. f. similis
S. f. subcinctus
S. f. superciliaris
S. f. yucatanicus


Appalachian Cottontail (Sylvilagus obscurus)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout the Appalachian Mountains of eastern USA, from northern Pennsylvania in the north to northern Alabama in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Robust Cottontail (Sylvilagus robustus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout the mountains of southeast New Mexico and southwest Texas, and into adjacent northeast Mexico.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Manzano Mountain Cottontail (Sylvilagus cognatus)

Endemic to the Manzano Mountains of central New Mexico.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Caprolagus


Hispid Hare (Caprolagus hispidus)

The range of this species extends throughout the southern foothills of the Himalayas, from northern India and adjacent southern Nepal into northeast India, northwest Bangladesh and southern Bhutan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Poelagus


Bunyoro Rabbit (Poelagus marjorita)

The range of this species represents a patchy distribution of disjunct populations throughout central Africa, from the northeast Central African Republic, through southern South Sudan and west-central Uganda, and into northeast DRC.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Oryctolagus


European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

The native range of this species extends throughout the Iberian Peninsula, the Mahgreb and southwest France; ancient introductions have extended this range throughout the Mediterranean, Western and Central Europe and Macaronesia, with more recent introductions of domesticated and feral stock throughout much of the world, particularly Australia and New Zealand, the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean, South Africa and Namibia, and southern South America.

Six subspecies are recognised:

O. c. cuniculus - photo by @ThylacineAlive



O. c. algirus - photo by @ThylacineAlive



O. c. brachyotus
O. c. cnossius
O. c. habetensis
O. c. huxleyi
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Surprised me too!

Was a little surprised at the lack of pygmy rabbit shots too.

 

Lepus


Hainan Hare (Lepus hainanus)

Endemic to Hainan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Indian Hare (Lepus nigricollis)

The range of this species extends throughout the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka.

Seven subspecies are recognised:

L. n. nigricollis
L. n. aryabertensis
L. n. dayanus
L. n. ruficaudatus
L. n. sadiya
L. n. simcoxi
L. n. singhala - photo by @chrisroughly:



Burmese Hare (Lepus peguensis)

The range of this species extends throughout Indochina and the northernmost reaches of Peninsular Thailand.

Two subspecies are recognised:

L. p. peguensis
L. p. vassali

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ethiopian Hare (Lepus fagani)

Endemic to the northwest highlands of Ethiopia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Scrub Hare (Lepus saxatilis)

The range of this species extends throughout southern and central South Africa, southeast Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Giant Eland



African Savanna Hare (Lepus victoriae)

The range of this species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel, from Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Sudan and western Ethiopia in the east, and south to eastern South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland; largely absent from the Congo Basin, Horn of Africa and the arid southwest of Africa.

Four subspecies are recognised:

L. v. victoriae - photo by @lintworm


L. v. angolensis
L. v. senegalensis
L. v. whytei - photo by @Giant Eland




Yarkland Hare (Lepus yarkandensis)

The range of this species is restricted to the steppes of the Tarim Basin in northwest China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ethiopian Highland Hare (Lepus starki)

Endemic to the central highlands of Ethiopia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari :



Cape Hare (Lepus capensis)

The range of this species represents a widespread but highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations; on Sardinia; patchily throughout North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East into the southwest Himalayas; throughout the Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to South Sudan and Ethiopia, north from here throughout the Nile Valley into the Sinai and south through Uganda and western Kenya into Tanzania; and patchily throughout southern Africa from Namibia in the west to Mozambique in the east, and south to the Western Cape.

Thirteen subspecies are recognised:

L. c. capensis
L. c. aegypticus
L. c. aquilo
L. c. arabicus - photo by @Giant Eland


L. c. atlanticus
L. c. carpi
L. c. granti
L. c. hawkeri
L. c. isabellinus
L. c. mediterraneus
L. c. schlumbergeri
L. c. sinaiticus
L. c. whitakeri


Abyssinian Hare (Lepus habessinicus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Horn of Africa, and adjacent regions of eastern Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea and northern Kenya.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari



Tolai Hare (Lepus tolai)

The range of this species extends from the eastern coastline of the Caspian Sea in the west, through Central Asia, northwest China, southern Siberia and Mongolia to southwest Siberia and the Russian Far East in the east, and south from here throughout much of northeast and eastern China.

Seven subspecies are recognised:

L. t. tolai
L. t. buchariensis
L. t. cheybani
L. t. cinnamomeus
L. t. filchneri
L. t. lehmanni
L. t. swinhoei

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.

 

Desert Hare (Lepus tibetanus)

The range of this species extends from the western Himalayas of northwest India, northeast Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, north throughout the central and northern Tibetan Plateau into northwest and north-central China.

Five subspecies are recognised:

L. t. tibetanus
L. t. centrasiaticus
L. t. craspedotis
L. t. pamirensis
L. t. stoliczkanus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Yunnan Hare (Lepus comus)

The range of this species is restricted to Yunnan and immediately-adjacent regions of south-central China and northeast Myanmar.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Woolly Hare (Lepus oiostolus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Tibetan Plateau and immediately-adjacent regions of northwest India, the northern slope of the Himalayas and south-central China.

Four subspecies are recognised:

L. o. oiostolus
L. o. hypsibius - photo by @Chlidonias


L. o. pallipes
L. o. przewalskii - photo by @Deer Forest



Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of northern North America, from northwest Canada and Alaska in the west to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the east, and patchily south throughout Canada and northern USA, extending throughout the Rocky Mountains as far south as north-central New Mexico, and the Appalaichan Mountains as far south as eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.

Fifteen subspecies are recognised:

L. a. americanus
L. a. bairdii
L. a. cascadensis
L. a. columbensis
L. a. dalli - photo by @Gondwana


L. a. klamathensis
L. a. oregonus
L. a. pallidus
L. a. phaeonotus
L. a. pineus
L. a. seclusus
L. a. struthopus
L. a. tahoensis
L. a. virginianus - photo by @Giant Eland


L. a. washingtonii


Black-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus californicus)

The range of this species extends throughout western and central USA from southeast Oregon in the west to southern South Dakota in the east, and south to central Mexico.

Seventeen subspecies are recognised:

L. c. californicus
L. c. altamirae
L. c. asellus
L. c. bennetti - photo by @ThylacineAlive



L. c. curti
L. c. deserticola
L. c. eremicus - photo by @Giant Eland



L. c. festinus
L. c. magdalenae
L. c. martirensis
L. c. melanotis
L. c. merriami - photo by @jbnbsn99


L. c. richardsonii
L. c. sheldonii
L. c. texianus - photo by @Giant Eland


L. c. wallawalla
L. c. xanti


Black Jackrabbit (Lepus insularis)

Endemic to Isla Espíritu Santo, off the eastern coast of Baja California Sur.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Antelope Jackrabbit (Lepus alleni)

The range of this species extends from south-central Arizona into coastal western Mexico as far south as northwest Nayarit.

Three subspecies are recognised:

L. a. alleni
L. a. palitans
L. a. tiburonensis

Photograph by @Arizona Docent




White-sided Jackrabbit (Lepus callotis)

The range of this species extends patchily from southwest New Mexico throughout north-central and central Mexico, as far south as northwest Oaxaca.

Two subspecies are recognised:

L. c. callotis
L. c. gaillardi - photo by @Giant Eland



Tehuantepec Jackrabbit (Lepus flavigularis)

The range of this species is restricted to a tiny region of southern Mexico, south of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Iberian Hare (Lepus granatensis)

The range of this species extends throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Balaeric Islands; absent from north-central and northeast Spain.

Three subspecies are recognised:

L. g. granatensis
L. g. gallaecius
L. g. solsi

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


European Hare (Lepus europaeus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of Europe, absent only from Ireland, most of the Iberian Peninsula and Scandinavia, and through Asia Minor, the Caucasus and southwest Russia into southern Siberia as far east as western Mongolia. Introduced populations are present worldwide, particularly in northeast North America, southern South America, Australia and New Zealand.

Sixteen subspecies are recognised:

L. e. europaeus - photo by @vogelcommando


L. e. caspicus
L. e. connori - photo by @fofo


L. e. creticus
L. e. cyprius
L. e. cyrensis
L. e. hybridus
L. e. judeae
L. e. karpathorum - photo by @Maguari


L. e. medius
L. e. occidentalis - photo by @gentle lemur



L. e. parnassius
L. e. ponticus
L. e. rhodius
L. e. syriacus
L. e. transsylvanicus

 

Broom Hare (Lepus castroviejoi)

Endemic to the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain, between the Serra dos Ancares and the Sierra de Peña Labra.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Corsican Hare (Lepus corsicanus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout central and southern Italy, Sicily and Corsica.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of western and central USA, and adjacent regions of southwest and south-central Canada, from southern British Colombia in the west to southwest Ontario in the east, and south to east-central California and northwest Missouri.

Two subspecies are recognised:

L. t. townsendii - photo by @Giant Eland


L. t. campanius


Arctic Hare (Lepus arcticus)

The range of this species extends throughout the tundra of northern and northwest Canada into the Canadian Arctic of the far north, and into the ice-free coastal regions of Greenland.

Nine subspecies are recognised:

L. a. arcticus
L. a. andersoni
L. a. bangsii
L. a. banksicola
L. a. groenlandicus
L. a. hubbardi
L. a. labradorius
L. a. monstrabilis
L. a. porsildi

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Alaskan Hare (Lepus othus)

The range of this species is restricted to westernmost Alaska and the Chukchi Peninsula of northeast Siberia.

Three subspecies are recognised:

L. o. othus
L. o. poadromus
L. o. tschuktschorum

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Mountain Hare (Lepus timidus)

The range of this species extends throughout northern Eurasia, from Scandinavia, the Baltic States and northwest Russia in the west, throughout Siberia and adjacent regions of Central Asia to the Russian Far East, Sakhalin and Kamchatka; fragmented disjunct populations occur in Ireland, northern Great Britain and northern Japan.

Sixteen subspecies are recognised:

L. t. timidus - photo by @Giant Eland



L. t. abei
L. t. ainu - photo by @RatioTile



L. t. begitschevi
L. t. gichiganus
L. t. hibernicus
L. t. kolymensis
L. t. kozhevnikovi
L. t. lugubris
L. t. mordeni
L. t. orii
L. t. scoticus
L. t. sibiricorum - photo by @Elephas Maximus



L. t. sylvaticus
L. t. transbaikalicus
L. t. varronis - photo by @Orycteropus




Japanese Hare (Lepus brachyurus)

Endemic to central and southern Japan.

Four subspecies are recognised:

L. b. brachyurus - photo by @Giant Eland



L. b. angustidens - photo by @Giant Eland



L. b. lyoni
L. b. okiensis


Manchurian Hare (Lepus mandshuricus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Russian Far East, northeast China and extreme northeast North Korea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Korean Hare (Lepus coreanus)

Endemic to the Korean Peninsula and adjacent regions of northeast China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Chinese Hare (Lepus sinensis)

The range of this species extends throughout eastern and southeast China, and into Taiwan.

Three subspecies are recognised:

L. s. sinensis - photo by @Himimomi



L. s. formosus
L. s. yuenshanensis
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Duly added

 

PTILOCERCIDAE


This family comprises a single monotypic genus, as follows:

Ptilocercus - Pen-tailed Treeshrew (monotypic)
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Ptilocercus


Pen-tailed Treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii)

The range of this species extends throughout Peninsular Malaysia and patchily into Borneo, Sumatra and associated offshore islands in the Greater Sundas.

Two subspecies are recognised; however, the taxonomic status of populations in Sumatra, Bangka, the Mentawi Islands and several other areas of the Greater Sundas is unclear.

P. t. lowii
P. t. continentis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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TUPAIIDAE


This family comprises 22 species within 3 genera, as follows:

Dendrogale - Smooth-tailed Treeshrews (2 species)

Anathana - Madras Treeshrew (monotypic)

Tupaia - True Treeshrews (19 species)
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Dendrogale


Northern Smooth-tailed Treeshrew (Dendrogale murina)

The range of this species extends in a patchy and highly-fragmented distribution throughout east-central Indochina; disjunct populations are present in northern Vietnam and southeast Thailand.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Bornean Smooth-tailed Treeshrew (Dendrogale melanura)

The range of this species is restricted to a highly-patchy distribution throughout northern Borneo.

Two subspecies are recognised:

D. m. melanura
D. m. baluensis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Anathana


Madras Treeshrew (Anathana ellioti)

The range of this species extends throughout central and southern Peninsular India.

Monotypic.

Photo by @gentle lemur


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