Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis Blyth 1855

Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis Blyth 1855, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 471.

Type Locality: " Pegu " [Upper Pegu, Burma].

Vernacular Names: Burmese Hare.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis subsp. peguensis Blyth 1855

Subspecies Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis subsp. vassali Thomas 1906

Distribution: C, S Burma from Chindwin River valley east through Thailand; Cambodia; S Laos, S Vietnam; south in upper Malay Peninsula (Burma, Thailand) to 120EN.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Indolagus by Gureev (1964:144) in Caprolagus (Indolagus); he ranked siamensis as a distinct species; but see Lekagul and McNeely (1977:333) and Flux and Angermann (1990). Petter (1961 a) suggested that peguensis might be conspecific with nigricollis because of its close resemblance to L. n. ruficaudatus . However, L. n. ruficaudatus appears to be allopatric with respect to peguensis in E India-W Burma. Suchentrunk (2004:28) considered the separate species status of L. peguensis still open. Formerly included hainanus (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1955), which is here considered a full species.