Prolagus sardus
Taxonomy [top]
| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | LAGOMORPHA | PROLAGIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Prolagus sardus | |||||||||
| Species Authority: | (Wagner, 1832) | |||||||||
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Assessment Information [top]
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Extinct ver 3.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2008 | |||||||||||||||
| Assessor/s: | Smith, A.T. & Johnston, C.H. | |||||||||||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Boyer, A.F. & Johnston, C.H. (Lagomorph Red List Authority) | |||||||||||||||
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Justification: The last presumed sighting of Prolagus sardus was in 1774 (Smith 2008). This species was present in its historic distribution within the last 2,000 years (Smith 2008). It is speculated that "habitat loss, predation, and competition with alien invasive species" were responsible for its extinction (Smith 2008). |
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Geographic Range [top]
| Range Description: | Prolagus sardus once occupied Corsica, Sardinia, and small adjacent islands of the Mediterranean (Hoffmann and Smith 2005). |
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Regionally extinct:
France (Corse); Italy (Sardegna)
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Population [top]
| Population: | Extinct. |
Habitat and Ecology [top]
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
Bibliography [top]
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Hoffmann, R. S. and Smith, A. T. 2005. Order Lagomorpha. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 185-211. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008). Smith, A. T. 2008. Conservation of Endangered Lagomorphs. In: P. C. Alves and K. Hackländer (eds), Lagomorph Biology: Evolution, Ecology and Conservation, pp. 297-315. Springer-Verlag, New York, USA. |
| Citation: | Smith, A.T. & Johnston, C.H. 2008. Prolagus sardus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012. |
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