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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- cottontail rabbit
- Named after
- Idaho
- Image
- BRACHYLAGUS IDAHOENSIS.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Sylvilagus idahoensis
- Commons gallery
- Brachylagus idahoensis
- taxon common name
- Zwergkaninchen
- different from
- dwarf rabbit
- Commons category
- Brachylagus idahoensis
- short name
- S. idahoensis
- has characteristic
- minimum
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Encyclopedic overview
The pygmy rabbit (Sylvilagus idahoensis) is a rabbit species native to the United States. It is one of the only two native rabbit species in North America to dig its own burrow (the other is the volcano rabbit). The pygmy rabbit differs significantly from species within either the Lepus (hare) or Sylvilagus (cottontail) genera, and was once considered to be within the genus Brachylagus, which includes one extinct species. One isolated population, the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Federal government, though the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as lower risk.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pygmy rabbit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.