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Lagomorpha, the Glossary

The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two living families: the Leporidae (rabbits and hares) and the Ochotonidae (pikas).^[1]

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Extant Paleocene first appearances
Lagomorphs
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt

Amami rabbit

The Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi), also known as the Ryukyu rabbit is a dark-furred species of rabbit which is only found on Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima, two small islands between southern Kyūshū and Okinawa in Japan.

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Aztlanolagus

Aztlanolagus is an extinct monotypic genus of rabbit that lived during the Quaternary in what is now the Southern to Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

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Bat

Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.

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Brachylagus

Brachylagus is a genus of lagomorph that contains the smallest living leporid, the pygmy rabbit.

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Bunyoro rabbit

The Bunyoro rabbit or Central African rabbit (Poelagus marjorita) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae.

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Cecotrope

Cecotropes (also caecotropes, cecotrophs, cecal pellets, soft feces, or night feces) are a nutrient filled package created in the gastointestinal (GI) tract, expelled and eaten by rabbits and guinea pigs (among other animals) to get more nutrition out of their food. Lagomorpha and cecotrope are lagomorphs.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Cottontail rabbit

Cottontail rabbits are in the Sylvilagus genus, which is in the Leporidae family.

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Diastema

A diastema (diastemata, from Greek διάστημα, 'space') is a space or gap between two teeth.

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Eastern cottontail

The eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) is a New World cottontail rabbit, a member of the family Leporidae.

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Endotherm

An endotherm (from Greek ἔνδον endon "within" and θέρμη thermē "heat") is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favorable temperature, largely by the use of heat released by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Food chain

A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice), or decomposer (such as fungi or bacteria).

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Forb

A forb or phorb is an herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grass, sedge, or rush).

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Glires

Glires (Latin glīrēs 'dormice') is a clade (sometimes ranked as a grandorder) consisting of rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas). Lagomorpha and Glires are extant Paleocene first appearances.

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Gyrification

Gyrification is the process of forming the characteristic folds of the cerebral cortex.

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Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus Lepus.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Hispid hare

The hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus), also called Assam rabbit and bristly rabbit, is a leporid native to South Asia, whose historic range extended along the southern foothills of the Himalayas.

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Hypolagus

Hypolagus is an extinct genus of lagomorph, first recorded in the Hemingfordian (early to middle Miocene) of North America.

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Incisor

Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.

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Insectivore

robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects.

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Johann Friedrich von Brandt

Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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Journal of Anatomy

The Journal of Anatomy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Anatomical Society.

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Large-eared pika

The large-eared pika (Ochotona macrotis) is a species of small mammal in the family Ochotonidae.

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Leporidae

Leporidae is the family of rabbits and hares, containing over 70 species of extant mammals in all. Lagomorpha and Leporidae are lagomorphs.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mammalian Species

Mammalian Species is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Mammalogists.

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Mammary gland

A mammary gland is an exocrine gland in humans and other mammals that produces milk to feed young offspring.

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Nesolagus

Nesolagus is a genus of rabbits containing three species of striped rabbit: the Annamite striped rabbit, the Sumatran striped rabbit, and the extinct species N. sinensis.

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Nuralagus

Nuralagus is an extinct genus of leporid (the family of rabbits and hares), with a single species, Nuralagus rex, described in 2011.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Oryctolagus

Oryctolagus is a genus of lagomorph that today contains the European rabbit and its descendant, the domestic rabbit, as well as several fossil species.

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Palaeolagus

Palaeolagus ('ancient hare') is an extinct genus of lagomorph.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).

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Paleogene

The Paleogene Period (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Ma.

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Panolax

Panolax is an extinct genus of North American Leporid mammal that lived during the Cenozoic era during the Neogene period in the Miocene epoch, about 13.6 million to 10.3 million years ago.

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Paw

A paw is the soft foot-like part of a mammal, generally a quadruped, that has claws.

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Pika

A pika is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America.

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Postorbital process

The postorbital process is a projection on the frontal bone near the rear upper edge of the eye socket.

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Prolagus

Prolagus is an extinct genus of lagomorph.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).

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Rabbits in Australia

European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were first introduced to Australia in the 18th century with the First Fleet, and later became widespread, because of Thomas Austin.

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Red panda

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.

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Red rock hare

The red rock hares are the four species in the genus Pronolagus.

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Riverine rabbit

The riverine rabbit (Bunolagus monticularis), also known as the bushman rabbit or bushman hare, is a rabbit with an extremely limited distribution area, found only in the central and southern regions of the Karoo Desert of South Africa's Northern Cape Province.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Scree

Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall.

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Serengetilagus

Serengetilagus is a genus of lagomorph in the family Leporidae.

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Shamolagus

Shamolagus is an extinct genus of lagomorphs that lived in present-day China and Mongolia during the Eocene epoch.

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Skull

The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagomorpha

Also known as Duplicidentata, Evolution of lagomorphs, Evolutionary history of lagomorphs, Lagamorph, Lagomorph, Lagomorphic, Lagomorphs, Lagomporpha, Rabbits (Lagomorpha).

, Rodent, Scree, Serengetilagus, Shamolagus, Skull, Species, Springer Science+Business Media, Supraorbital foramen, Synonym (taxonomy), Tetrapod, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Volcano rabbit.

Lagomorpha, the Glossary

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See also

Extant Paleocene first appearances

Lagomorphs

Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt

References