Sylvilagus audubonii (Baird, 1858) . Mammalia, in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(8):608.

TYPE LOCALITY: "San Francisco" [San Francisco Co., California, USA].

DISTRIBUTION: NE Puebla and W Veracruz (Mexico) to NC Montana and SW North Dakota, NC Utah, C Nevada, and NC California (USA), south to Baja California and C Sinaloa (Mexico).

STATUS: Secure (Chapman and Ceballos, 1990).

SYNONYMS: arizonae (J. Allen, 1877); baileyi (Merriam, 1897); cedrophilus Nelson, 1907; confinis 0. Allen, 1898); goldmani (Nelson, 1904); laticinctus (Elliot, 1904); major (Mearns, 1896); minor (Mearns, 1896); neomexicanus Nelson, 1907; parvulus (J. Allen, 1904); rufipes (Elliot, 1904); sanctidiegi (Miller, 1899); vallicola Nelson, 1907; warreni Nelson, 1907.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sylvilagus (Gureev, 1964:169) . Reviewed by Chapman and Willner (1978, Mammalian Species, 106).