| Omilteme cottontail[1] | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | Sylvilagus |
| Species: | S. insonus
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| Binomial name | |
| Sylvilagus insonus (E. W. Nelson, 1904)
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| Omilteme cottontail range | |
The Omilteme cottontail (Sylvilagus insonus) is a cottontail rabbit found only in the state of Guerrero, Mexico in the mountain range of Sierra Madre del Sur. Belonging to the family Leporidae, it is one of fourteen species in the genus Sylvilagus, a genus restricted to the New World.[3] The Omilteme cottontail is considered one of the most endangered rabbit species in the world[4] and is only known and been described by very few specimens.[5]
- ^ Hoffman, R.S.; Smith, A.T. (2005). "Order Lagomorpha". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Lorenzo, C., Brown, D.E. & Lanier, H.C. 2019. Sylvilagus insonus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T21207A45180771. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Cervantes, F. A. & Lorenzo, C. (1997). "Sylvilagus insonus". Mammalian Species (568): 1–4. doi:10.2307/3504381. JSTOR 3504381.
- ^ Cervantes, F. A.; Lorenzo, C. & González-Cózatl (2004). "The Omiltemi rabbit (Sylvilagus insonus) is not extinct". Mammalian Biology. 69: 61–64. doi:10.1078/1616-5047-117.
- ^ Mares, A. M. & Schmidly, D. J. (1991). Latin American mammalogy: history, biodiversity and conservation. Norman, USA: University of Oklahoma Press.