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Pygmy Rabbit

Brachylagus idahoensis

Classification

Family
Leporidae

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.

Distribution

U.S. Government National Park Service · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Germany · 2