Lepus (Lepus) timidus Linnaeus 1758

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Lagomorpha; Leporidae; Lepus; Lepus timidus; mountain hare; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11333453; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/613BA12D2C5FD6F3CBF8BFAC572DF493

Lepus (Lepus) timidus Linnaeus 1758 Lepus (Lepus) timidus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 57. Type Locality: "in Europa" [Uppsala, Sweden]. Vernacular Names: Mountain Hare. Subspecies:: Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. timidus Linnaeus 1758 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. ainu Barrett-Hamilton 1900 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. begitschevi Koljuschev 1936 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. gichiganus J. Allen 1903 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. hibernicus Bell 1837 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. kamtschaticus Dybowski 1922 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. kolymensis Ognev 1923 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. kozhevnikovi Ognev 1929 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. lugubris Kastschenko 1899 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. mordeni Goodwin 1933 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. orii Kuroda 1928 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. scoticus Hilzheimer 1906 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. sibiricorum Johanssen 1923 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. transbaicalicus Ognev 1929 Subspecies Lepus (Lepus) timidus subsp. varronis Miller 1901 Distribution: Palearctic from Scandinavia to E Siberia, except E Chukotsk (Russia), south to Sakhalin and Sikhote-Alin Mtns (Russia); Hokkaido (Japan); Heilungjiang, N Xinjiang (China); N Mongolia; Altai, N Tien Shan Mtns; N Ukraine, E Poland, and Baltics; isolated populations in the Alps, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Introduced into England, Faeros and Scottish Isles. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus Lepus (Gureev, 1964; Averianov, 1998). Formerly included arcticus and othus see Corbet (1978 c : 73); but also see comments under those species. A. J. Baker et al. (1983) found Scottish and Alpine populations morphologically distinct, as well as geographically isolated, from other populations, and Flux (1983) remarked that L. t. scoticus and L. t. hibernicus (from Scotland and Ireland, respectively), both introduced on the island of Mull (Hewson, ...