Northern tapeti
| Northern tapeti[1] | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | Sylvilagus |
| Species: | S. incitatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Sylvilagus incitatus (O. Bangs, 1901)
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| Synonyms | |
The northern tapeti (Sylvilagus incitatus) is a species of cottontail rabbit related to the Central American tapeti (Sylvilagus gabbi). Its type locality is an island in the Pearl Islands of Panama.[2] Previously considered a subspecies of the Central American tapeti, and later of the common tapeti (Sylvilagus brasilensis) from 1950 onwards[4] (though some studies still placed it as a subspecies of S. gabbi[5]), it was split into its own separate species in 2019,[1] with researchers noting its "bizarre dental anatomy".[2]
The northern tapeti is one of two tapeti species other than the common tapeti located north of the Amazon River, with the other being the Santa Marta tapeti.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sylvilagus incitatus (Bangs, 1901)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Ruedas, Luis A; Silva, Sofia Marques; French, Johnnie H; Platt, Roy Nelson; Salazar-Bravo, Jorge; Mora, José M; Thompson, Cody W (2019-10-22). Rogers, Duke (ed.). "Taxonomy of the Sylvilagus brasiliensis complex in Central and South America (Lagomorpha: Leporidae)". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (5): 1599–1630. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz126. ISSN 0022-2372.
- ^ Nelson, Edward William (1909). The Rabbits of North America. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ a b Hershkovitz, Philip (1962). Evolution of neotropical cricetine rodents (Muridae) with special reference to the phyllotine group. [Chicago]: Chicago Natural History Museum. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2781.
- ^ Diersing, V. E. (1981-08-20). "Systematic Status of Sylvilagus brasiliensis and S. insonus from North America". Journal of Mammalogy. 62 (3): 539–556. doi:10.2307/1380401. ISSN 1545-1542.
- ^ Smith, Andrew T.; Johnston, Charlotte H.; Alves, Paulo C.; Hackländer, Klaus, eds. (2018). "Sylvilagus brasiliensis sensu stricto". Lagomorphs: Pikas, Rabbits, and Hares of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2341-8. LCCN 2017004268.