Annamite Striped Rabbit
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Annamite Striped Rabbit
| Annamite Striped Rabbit[1] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | Nesolagus |
| Species: | N. timminsi |
| Binomial name | |
| Nesolagus timminsi Averianov, Abramov, & Tikhonov, 2000 |
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| Annamite Striped Rabbit range | |
The Annamite Striped Rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi) is a species of rabbit native to the Annamite mountain range on the Laos-Vietnam border. The rabbit is striped, with a red rump, and resembles the Sumatran Striped Rabbit. It only recently became known to Western scientists.
References
- ^ Hoffman, Robert S.; Smith, Andrew T. (16 November 2005). "Order Lagomorpha (pp. 185-211)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 205. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13500252.
- ^ Abramov, A., Timmins, R.J., Touk, D., Duckworth, J.W. & Steinmetz, R. (2008). "Nesolagus timminsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41209. Retrieved 2010-07-25. Listed as Data Deficient (DD ver 3.1 )
External links
- Striped rabbit revealed in Laos forest at bbc.co.uk
- Camera-shy deer caught for first time at www.physorg.com
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