Caprolagus hispidus

– Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

LAGOMORPHA

Family:

LEPORIDAE

Scientific Name:

Caprolagus hispidus

Species Authority:

(Pearson, 1839)

Common Name/s:

English	—	ASSAM RABBIT, HISPID HARE
French	—	LAPIN DE L'ASSAM
Spanish	—	CONEJO DE ASSAM

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EN A1c+2c, B1+2abcde, C1 ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Lagomorph Specialist Group

History:

1965	-	"Status inadequately known-survey required or data sought" (Scott 1965)
1986	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

India; Nepal

Possibly extinct regionally:

Bangladesh

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Threats

List of Threats:

1	Habitat Loss/Degradation (human induced) (ongoing)
9.9	Intrinsic factors - Restricted range (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Lagomorph Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Mace, G.M. and Balmford, A. 2000. Patterns and processes in contemporary mammalian extinction. In: A. Entwhistle and N. Dunstone (eds) Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Diversity. Has the Panda had its day?, pp. 27-52. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

Citation:	Lagomorph Specialist Group 1996. Caprolagus hispidus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 August 2008.
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