Sylvilagus palustris (Bachman, 1837) . J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7:194.

TYPE LOCALITY: "... South Carolina ...never...more than fourty miles from the sea coast"; restricted by Miller and Rehn (1901:183) to E South Carolina .

DISTRIBUTION: Florida to SE Virginia (Dismal Swamp) (USA) in coastal lowlands.

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as S. p. hefneri; IUCN - Endangered as S. p. hefneri; other populations indeterminate (Chapman and Ceballos, 1990).

SYNONYMS: douglasii (Gray, 1837); hefneri Lazell, 1984; paludicola (Miller and Bangs, 1894) .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Tapeti (Gureev, 1964:162) . S. aquaticus and S. palustris share a derived karyotype, 2n=38 (Robinson et al., 1983, 1984). Reviewed by Chapman and Willner (1981, Mammalian Species, 153).