Pronolagus saundersiae
| Hewitt's red rock hare | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | Pronolagus |
| Species: | P. saundersiae |
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Pronolagus saundersiae Hewitt, 1927 |
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| Hewitt Red Rock Hare range | |
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The Hewitt's red rock hare (Pronolagus saundersiae) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It had previously been classified as a subspecies of Pronolagus rupestris, but is now regarded as its own species due to differences in morphology and genetic differences in , and 12S rRNA.
This species was named by John Hewitt (1880–1961), who was the director of the Albany Museum, South Africa. Hewitt originally described this taxon as a subspecies of Pronolagus crassicaudatus in his 1927 description. Its type locality was Grahamstown.
He described this taxon based and skulls from Albany district, collected by Enid Saunders and Frank Bowker; the species is named after Saunders.
It was later classified as a subspecies of Pronolagus rupestris by various zoologists, including Ellerman,Morrison-Scott and Hayman, as well as Hoffman and Smith for the third edition of Mammal Species of the World.
Works which list it as its own species include: the IUCN Red List,Mammals of Africa, and Jonathan Kingdon's field guide.
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