Sardinian pika[1] Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Holocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Lagomorpha |
Family: | †Prolagidae |
Genus: | †Prolagus |
Species: | †P. sardus
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Binomial name | |
†Prolagus sardus (Wagner, 1829)
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Synonyms | |
Prolagus corsicanus |
The Sardinian pika (Prolagus sardus) is an extinct species of lagomorph that was endemic to the islands of Sardinia, Corsica and neighbouring Mediterranean islands until its extinction likely in Roman times. It was the last surviving member of Prolagus, a genus of lagomorph once widespread throughout Europe during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, whose closest living relatives are pikas of the genus Ochotona.