genus Sylvilagus

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genus Sylvilagus - North American rabbits

Sylvilagus

mammal genus - a genus of mammals

family Leporidae, Leporidae - hares and rabbits

cottontail, cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit - common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

canecutter, swamp hare, Sylvilagus aquaticus, swamp rabbit - a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands

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& CHAPMAN, J.A., 1984.--Evolution of chromosomal variation in cottontails, genus Sylvilagus (Mammalia: Lagomorpha).

Caracterizacion de los leporidos (Mammalia: Leporidae) del bosque seco tropical del departamento del Tolima (Colombia)

Speciation and subspeciation is high among the new world members of the genus Sylvilagus. Nine subspecies of Sylvilagus floridanus Allen, 1890, and 22 subspecies of S.

A new rabbit species (Sylvilagus, Mammalia: Leporidae) from the lowlands of Venezuela

The third lower premolar of the cottontail, genus Sylvilagus, and its value in the discrimination of three species.

Enamel ultrastructure of incisors, premolars, and molars in Thomomys, Cratogeomys, and Geomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae)

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