Lepus insularis W. Bryant, 1891 . Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 3:92.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Espiritu Santo Island, [near La Paz], Gulf of California [Baja California del Sur], Mexico."

DISTRIBUTION: Restricted to the type locality.

STATUS: IUCN - Rare. Occupies very small insular range, but population is stable, and seems in no danger (Chapman et al., 1983).

SYNONYMS: edwardsi Saint-Loup, 1895.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Proeulagus (Gureev, 1964:195) . Insular melanic allospecies, related to californicus; see Hall (1981:328) and Dixon et al. (1983).