Mexican cottontail

Mexican cottontail
Temporal range: Late Blancan-present
San Ignacio, Sinaloa, Mexico
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Sylvilagus
Species:
S. cunicularius
Binomial name
Sylvilagus cunicularius
(Waterhouse, 1848)
Mexican cottontail range
Synonyms
List
    • Lepus cunicularius H. Lichtenstein, 1830
    • Lepus cunicularius Waterhouse, 1848
    • Lepus verae-crucis Thomas, 1890
    • Lepus insolitus Allen, 1890
    • Lepus veraecrucis pacificus E. W. Nelson, 1904
    • Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) insolitus Lyon, 1904
    • Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) veræcrucis Lyon, 1904

The Mexican cottontail (Sylvilagus cunicularius) is a species of cottontail rabbit that is endemic to southern Mexico. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests and pastureland.

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