Lepus coreanus Thomas, 1892 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 9:146.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Söul " [Seoul], Korea .

DISTRIBUTION: Korea; S Kirin, S Liaoning, E Heilungjiang (China).

STATUS: Secure at present (Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: Monotypic.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in sinensis (Corbet, 1978c) or in brachyurus (Kim and Kim, 1974); here considered distinct, following Flux and Angermann (1990) and Jones and Johnson (1965). Angermann (in litt., 1992) suggested that coreanus and mandshuricus are conspecific.