Annamite Striped Rabbit

Annamite Striped Rabbit[1]
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Lagomorpha
Family:	Leporidae
Genus:	Nesolagus
Species:	N. timminsi
Binomial name
Nesolagus timminsi Averianov, Abramov, & Tikhonov, 2000
Annamite Striped Rabbit range

The Annamite Striped Rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi) is a species of rabbit native to the Annamite mountain range on the Laos-Vietnam border. The rabbit is striped, with a red rump, and resembles the Sumatran Striped Rabbit. It only recently became known to Western scientists.

References

1. ^ Hoffman, Robert S.; Smith, Andrew T. (16 November 2005). "Order Lagomorpha (pp. 185-211)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 205. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13500252. 
2. ^ "Nesolagus timminsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41209. Retrieved 2010-07-25.  Listed as Data Deficient (DD ver 3.1 )

External links

• Striped rabbit revealed in Laos forest at bbc.co.uk
• Camera-shy deer caught for first time at www.physorg.com