Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii (Bachman 1837)

[Lepus] nuttallii Bachman 1837, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 345.

Type Locality: "...west of the Rocky Mountains,...streams which flow into the Shoshonee and Columbia rivers"; restricted by Nelson (1909:201) to "eastern Oregon, near mouth of Malheur River." Listed by Bailey (1936) as "near Vale." .

Vernacular Names: Mountain Cottontail.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii subsp. nuttallii Bachman 1837

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii subsp. grangeri J. Allen 1895

Subspecies Sylvilagus (Sylvilagus) nuttallii subsp. pinetis J. Allen 1894

Distribution: Intermountain area of North America from S British Columbia to S Saskatchewan (Canada), south to E California, Nevada, C Arizona, and NW New Mexico (USA).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Sylvilagus (Gureev, 1964:168) . This species is closely allopatric with S. floridanus where the two species ranges meet across the N and C Great Plains (see map 223, Hall, 1981), and in the Southwestern USA (Hoffmeister and Lee, 1963 b). Reviewed by Chapman (1975 a, Mammalian Species, 56).