Brachylagus idahoensis

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Authors:

Green, Jeffrey S.; Flinders, Jerran T.

Source:

Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists, Volume 125, p.1-4 (1980)

Call Number:

A80GRE02IDUS

URL:

http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-125-01-0001.pdf

Keywords:

Brachylagus idahoensis, pygmy rabbit, SWAP

Abstract:

The pygmy rabbit (Merriam, 1891), North America's smallest leporid, inhabits the Great Basin and some of the adjacent intermountain areas of the western United States, and one apparently isolated population occurs in southeastern Washington, west of Lower Coulee. The species is not ubiquitous over this range, found primarily on big sagebrush-dominated plains and alluvial fans where plants occur in tall, dense clumps. Besides the species’ general characteristics and distribution, this account summarizes what is known of its form and physiology, ontogeny and reproduction, ecology, genetics, and behavior.

Notes:

ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Mammals

SWAP (2/19/2016) citation:
Green JS, Flinders JT. 1980. Brachylagus idahoensis. [accessed 2015 Dec 21]; Mammalian Species.1–4. http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-...