Lepus brachyurus Temminck, 1845 . In Siebold, Fauna Japonica, l(Mamm.), p. 44, pl. 11.

TYPE LOCALITY: " ...tout l'Empire mais surtout dans l'île de Jezo", Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan .

DISTRIBUTION: Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Oki Isls and Sado Isl (Japan).

STATUS: No indication of decline at present (Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: angustidens Hollister, 1912; etigo Abe, 1918; lyoni Kishida, 1937; okiensis Thomas, 1906.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Imaizumi (1970b). Gureev (1964: 150) and Gromov and Baranova (1981:63) placed this species in Caprolagus (Allolagus); see also comment under mandshuricus .