Biology:Hewitt's red rock hare

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Short description: Species of mammal

Hewitt's red rock hare
Pronolagus saundersiae 19182031.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Pronolagus
Species:
P. saundersiae
Binomial name
Pronolagus saundersiae
Hewitt, 1927[2]
Hewitt's Red Rock Hare area.png
Hewitt Red Rock Hare range
Synonyms[6][7]
  • Roberts, 1933[5] Roberts, 1949[3]
  • Pronolagus bowkeri Pronolagus barretti
  • Hewitt, 1927[4] Pronolagus australis

The Hewitt's red rock hare (Pronolagus saundersiae) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It had previously been classified as a subspecies of Pronolagus rupestris, but is now regarded as its own species due to differences in morphology and genetic differences in cytochrome b, and 12S rRNA.[8]

Taxonomic history

This species was named by John Hewitt (1880–1961), who was the director of the Albany Museum, South Africa.[9] Hewitt originally described this taxon as a subspecies of Pronolagus crassicaudatus in his 1927 description.[7] Its type locality was Grahamstown.[10][11]

He described this taxon based and skulls from Albany district, collected by Enid Saunders and Frank Bowker; the species is named after Saunders.[12]

It was later classified as a subspecies of Pronolagus rupestris by various zoologists,[13] including Ellerman, Morrison-Scott and Hayman,[10] as well as Hoffman and Smith for the third edition of Mammal Species of the World.[6]

Works which list it as its own species include: the IUCN Red List,[1] Mammals of Africa,[7] and Jonathan Kingdon's field guide.[14]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robinson, T.J.; Child, M.F.; Matthee, C.M. (2019). "Pronolagus saundersiae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T136713A45194657. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136713A45194657.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136713/45194657. Retrieved 19 November 2021. 
  2. ↑ Hewitt 1927, pp. 434–437; Pl. 26, fig. 2.
  3. ↑ Roberts, Austen (1949). "A New Pronolagus from Natal". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 21 (1): 179–180. 
  4. ↑ Hewitt 1927, pp. 437–439; Pl. 26, fig. 1; Pl. 27, fig. 7.
  5. ↑ Roberts, Austin (1933). "Eleven new forms of South African mammals". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15 (2): 270. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hoffman, R.S.; Smith, A.T. (2005). "Order Lagomorpha". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13500273. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Happold, D. C. D. (2013). "Pronolagus saundersiae Hewitt's Red Rock-hare". in Happold, David C. D.. Rodents, Hares and Rabbits. Mammals of Africa. 3. London: Bloomsbury. p. 717. ISBN 978-1-4081-8992-4. 
  8. ↑ Robinson, T. J.; Matthee, C. A. (2005). "Phylogeny and evolutionary origins of the Leporidae: a review of cytogenetics, molecular analyses and a supermatrix analysis". Mammal Review 35 (3–4): 241. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.2005.00073.x. 
  9. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael, eds (2009). "Hewitt". The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780801895333. https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/69234. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ellerman, J. R.; Morrison-Scott, T. C. S.; Hayman, R. W. (1953). "Lagomorpha — Leporidae". Southern African Mammals 1758 to 1951: A Reclassification. London: Tonbridge. p. 221. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49728490. 
  11. ↑ Meester, J. A. J.; Rautenbach, I. L.; Dippenaar, N. J.; Baker, C. M. (1986). "Order Lagomorpha". Classification of Southern African Mammals. Transvaal Museum Monographs. 5. Transvaal Museum. pp. 298–307. ISBN 0907990061. 
  12. ↑ Hewitt 1927, pp. 434–435.
  13. ↑ Duthie, A. G.; Robinson, T. J. (1990). "The African Rabbits". in Chapman, Joseph A.; Flux, John E. C.. Rabbits, Hares, and Pikas: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. pp. 121–127. ISBN 2-8317-0019-1. https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/6047. 
  14. ↑ Kingdon, Jonathan (2015). "Hewitt's Red Rock-Hare". The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (2nd ed.). London: Bloomsbury. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-4729-1236-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=p1hMCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA305. 

Works cited

  • Hewitt, John (1927). "On several new Rodents in the Albany Museum". Records of the Albany Museum 3 (5): 430–440; Plates 26, 27. 

Further reading

  • Matthee, Conrad A.; Robinson, Terence J. (1996). "Mitochondrial DNA differentiation among geographical populations of Pronolagus rupestris, Smith's red rock rabbit (Mammalia: Lagomorpha)". Heredity 76 (5): 514–523. doi:10.1038/hdy.1996.74. PMID 8666547. 
  • Collins, K. (2005). "Order Lagomorpha". in Skinner, John D.; Chimimba, Christian T.. The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 73. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107340992.013. ISBN 9780521844185. 


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