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Brachylagus idahoensis (Pygmy Rabbit)

Synonyms: Lepus idahoensis; Microlagus idahoensis; Sylvilagus idahoensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) is a North American rabbit, and is one of only two rabbit species in America to dig its own burrow. The pygmy rabbit differs significantly from species within either the Lepus (hare) or Sylvilagus (cottontail) genera and is generally considered to be within the monotypic genus Brachylagus. One isolated population, the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Federal government, though the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as lower risk.
View Wikipedia Record: Brachylagus idahoensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
11
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
37
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 22.74
EDGE Score: 3.17
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  421 grams
Birth Weight [2]  19 grams
Diet [3]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [3]  100 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  8 months 16 days
Gestation [1]  27 days
Litter Size [1]  6
Litters / Year [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [2]  4 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  11 inches (27 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Great Basin National Park II 77367 Nevada, United States

Ecosystems

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Desert Shrubland United States (Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah); Canada
Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Canada (British Columbia); United States (Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Colorado)
Intermountain Low & Black Sagebrush Steppe & Shrubland United States (Idaho, Montana, Utah, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada)
Intermountain Montane Sagebrush Steppe Canada; United States (Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Wyoming)

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cediopsylla inaequalis inaequalis[6]
Cediopsylla inaequalis interrupta[6]
Euchoplopsyllus glacialis affinis[6]
Meringis shannoni[6]
Oropsylla montana[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 4SPECIES ASSESSMENT FOR PYGMY RABBIT (BRACHYLAGUS IDAHOENSIS) IN WYOMING, DOUGLAS A. KEINATH AND MATTHEW MCGEE, United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office Cheyenne, Wyoming (2004)
♦ 5The Sagebrush Sea by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
♦ 6International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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