Nesolagus
Nesolagus is a genus of rabbits containing three species of striped rabbit: the Annamite striped rabbit, the Sumatran striped rabbit, and the extinct N. sinensis. Overall there is very little known about the genus as a whole, most information coming from the Sumatran rabbit.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderLagomorpha
- FamilyLeporidae
苏门答腊兔（学名：Nesolagus）也称条纹兔，是兔形目兔科下的一属，现存两种：苏门答腊兔（Nesolagus netscheri）和阿纳米兔（Nesolagus timminsi），数量稀少，前者分布于印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛，后者分布于老挝、越南的长山山脉。2007～2008年期间，北京大学广西崇左生物多样性研究基地和中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所有关人员联合进行地质古生物调查，在广西崇左发现了一件苏门答腊兔下颌骨标本，是亚洲首次发现的苏门答腊兔化石种类，被称为中华苏门答腊兔（Nesolagus sinensis ）。
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Nesolagus is a genus of rabbits containing three species of striped rabbit: the Annamite striped rabbit, the Sumatran striped rabbit, and the extinct N. sinensis. Overall there is very little known about the genus as a whole, most information coming from the Sumatran rabbit.
==Taxonomy== Until 1996, the only known species belonging to the genus Nesolagus was the Sumatran striped rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri), a species restricted to the Sumatran mountain range of Bukit Barisan which was described in 1880 (as Lepus netscheri) by German naturalist Hermann Schlegel. The name Nesolagus was erected by Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major in 1899, though he did not clarify if it should describe a genus on its own or a subgenus of Caprolagus; it was solidified as a genus containing the Sumatran striped rabbit in 1904 by Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. in his work Classification of the Hares and their Allies.