Lepus (Eulagos) europaeus Pallas, 1778

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 27

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15120591

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3874162A-7E42-FFCB-FF42-FB55B18017F0

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scientific name

Lepus (Eulagos) europaeus Pallas, 1778
status

 

3. European Hare, Lepus (Eulagos) europaeus Pallas, 1778 View in CoL

( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 )

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Subspecies: L. e. connori Robinson, 1918, L. e. syriacus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1832 .

Distribution: Status uncertain. Probably restricted to semi-arid areas and adjacent dry plains of Al-Badia and in Mesopotamia westwards the coastal region and southwards the country; L. e. syriacus can be found in Mesopotamia, Orontes Basin, and the coastal regions ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ).

Previous records: Around Tell Abiad ( Misonne 1957).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Lagomorpha

Family

Leporidae

Genus

Lepus

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