Arctic Hare – Lepus arcticus

Lepus arcticusRoss, 1819

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

Subgenus Lepus (Averianov, 1998). Formerly included in timidus by Gureev (1964), Angermann (1967), Honacki et al. (1982), and Dixon et al. (1983), but considered<b> </b>distinct by Corbet<b> </b>(1978c), Hall (1981), A. J. Baker et al. (1983), and Flux and Angermann (1990). Reviewed by Best and Henry (1994a, Mammalian Species, 457).

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.