Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Lagomorpha > Leporidae > Sylvilagus > Sylvilagus palustrisSylvilagus palustris (Marsh Rabbit)The marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris) is a small cottontail rabbit found in marshes and swamps of coastal regions of the Eastern and Southern United States. It is a strong swimmer and found only near regions of water. It is similar in appearance to the eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) but is characterized by smaller ears, legs, and tail. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.33 EDGE Score: 1.99 |
| Gestation [2] | 34 days | | Litter Size [2] | 2 | | Litters / Year [2] | 6 | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 8 years | | Nocturnal [1] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 16 inches (41 cm) | | Water Biome [1] | Brackish Water |  | | Adult Weight [2] | 2.718 lbs (1.233 kg) | | | Diet [3] | Herbivore | | Diet - Plants [3] | 100 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [2] | 7 months 9 days |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Big Cypress National Preserve |
V |
732120 |
Florida, United States |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore |
II |
21476 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Cape Lookout National Seashore |
II |
18379 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
8964 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Congaree Swamp National Park |
II |
6095 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore |
II |
20629 |
Georgia, United States |
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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary |
IV |
2387149 |
Florida, United States |
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Fort Caroline National Memorial |
III |
137 |
Florida, United States |
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Fort Matanzas National Monument |
III |
269 |
Florida, United States |
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Little St. Simons Island |
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Georgia, United States |
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Ocmulgee National Monument |
V |
693 |
Georgia, United States |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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Santee Coastal Reserve and Washo Reserve State Habitat Area |
IV |
20850 |
South Carolina, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Habitat Vegetation Classification |
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Location |
Website |
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Florida Keys Pine Rockland |
United States (Florida) |
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Interior Low Plateau Mesic Bottomland Forest |
United States (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio) |
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Maple - Ash - Elm Swamp |
Canada (Ontario); United States (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan) |
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Midwest Mixed Emergent Deep Marsh |
Canada (Ontario); United States (Missouri, Tennessee, Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Nebraska, North Dakota, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin) |
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Midwestern Cottonwood - Black Willow - Silver Maple Floodplain Forest |
United States (Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana) |
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Mississippi River Red Maple - Water-locust Bottomland Forest |
United States (Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas) |
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Overcup Oak - Sweetgum Bottomland Forest |
United States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana) |
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Pin Oak - Post Oak Lowland Flatwoods |
United States (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas) |
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Southern Green Ash - Elm - Sugarberry Floodplain Forest |
United States (Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama) |
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Swamp Chestnut Oak - Sweetgum Floodplain Forest |
United States (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois) |
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Willow Oak Bottomland Flatwoods Forest |
United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, 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♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 3Hamish 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 ♦ 4Nathan 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 ♦ 5Sylvilagus palustris, Joseph A. Chapman and Gale R. Willner, Mammalian Species No. 153, pp. 1-3 (1981) ♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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