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Lepus callotis (White-sided Jackrabbit; white-sided jack rabbit; snow sides; Gaillard jack rabbit; Beautiful-eared jack rabbit)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The white-sided jackrabbit (Lepus callotis), also known as the Mexican hare, is a jackrabbit found in a limited range in North America, from southern New Mexico to northwestern and central Mexico. The animal is considered threatened in New Mexico, with its numbers in decline in recent years.
View Wikipedia Record: Lepus callotis

Infraspecies

Lepus callotis callotis (White-sided jack rabbit)
Lepus callotis gaillardi (Gaillard's jack rabbit)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Lepus callotis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.5
EDGE Score: 2.4
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.732 lbs (2.60 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [3]  3
Maximum Longevity [3]  3 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  19 inches (49 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cediopsylla inaequalis interrupta[5]
Dermacentor parumapertus (Rabbit Dermacentor)[1]
Echidnophaga gallinacea (sticktight flea)[5]
Pulex simulans[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Lepus callotis, Troy L. Best and Travis Hill Henry, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 442, pp. 1-6 (1993)
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0