Lepus victoriae Thomas 1893

Lepus victoriae Thomas, 1893. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 12:268. TYPE LOCALITY: "Nassa, Speke Gulf, S. Victoria Nyanza" [Lake, Tanzania]. DISTRIBUTION: From Atlantic coast of NW Africa (Spanish Sahara, Mauritania, south to Guinea and Sierra Leone) eastward across Sahel to Sudan and extreme W Ethiopia; southward through E Africa (E Congo, W Kenya) to NE Namibia, Botswana, and Natal (South Africa). Small isolated population in W Algeria. STATUS: Isolated population around Beni Abbés, Algeria, "deservefs] attention" (Flux and Angermann, 1990). SYNONYMS: angolensis Thomas, 1904; ansorgei Thomas and Wroughton, 1905; canopus Thomas and Hinton, 1921; chadensis Thomas and Wroughton, 1907; cordeauxi DrakeBrockman, 1911; crawshayi de Winton, 1899; herero Thomas, 1926; kakumegae Heller, 1912; meridionalis Monard, 1933; micklemi Chubb, 1908; microtis Heuglin, 1865; raineyi Heller, 1912; whytei Thomas, 1894; zairensis Hatt, 1935; zechi Matschie, 1899; zuluensis Thomas and Schwann, 1905. COMMENTS: Placed (as crawshayi) in subgenus Proeulagus by Gureev (1964:204), who recognized both crawshayi and whytei as distinct species, as did Azzaroli-Puccetti (1987«). Formerly included in saxatilis; see comments under that species. Angermann and Feiler (1988) demonstrated that the oldest available name for this species is victoriae. It is widely sympatric with capensis, but allo- to parapatric with saxatilis, which is also sympatric with capensis.
Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 807-827 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 822, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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