Lepus flavigularis Wagner, 1844 . In Schreber, Die Säugethiere ..., Suppl. 4:106.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Mexico " Restricted by Elliot (1905:543) to San Mateo del Mar, Tehuantepec [City, Oaxaca, Mexico] .

DISTRIBUTION: Coastal plains and bordering foothills on south end of Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), along Pacific coast to Chiapas (Mexico); now restricted to small area between Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, and extreme W Chiapas.

STATUS: IUCN - Endangered, by habitat destruction and overhunting.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Proeulagus (Gureev, 1964:193) . Closely related to callotis, with which it has an isolated allopatric distribution; see Anderson and Gaunt (1962); also see Hall (1981:330).