Éléments D’une Révision Des Lièvres Africains Du Sous-Genre Lepus

Petter, F.

doi:10.1515/mamm.1959.23.1.41

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“…For Northwest Africa, Petter (1959) lists the following forms referring to Ellerman and Morrison Scott (1951): "L. Schlumbergeri Saint-Loup 1894," "L. sherif Cabrera 1906," and"L. maroccanus Cabrera 1907" in Morocco; "L. kabylicus De Winton 1898" and "L. sefranus Thomas 1913" in Algeria, and "L. tunetae De Winton 1898" in Tunisia. Based on more recent morphological examinations, North African hares have been considered to belong either to the cape hare (L. capensis L., 1758) or to the brown hare (L. europaeus Pallas 1778) (Petter, 1959;Angermann, 1965Angermann, , 1983. Flux and Angermann (1990) classify them provisionally as various subspecies of the cape hare, apart from one isolated population of savanna hares (L. victoriae Thomas, 1823) in northwestern Algeria.…”

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Biochemical Genetic Relationships Among Tunisian Hares (Lepus sp.), South African Cape Hares (L. capensis), and European Brown Hares (L. europaeus)

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Tunisian hares (n = 45), currently assigned to Lepus capensis, were assayed for allelic variation at 40 allozyme loci, and allele frequencies at 32 loci were directly compared with earlier data of South African cape hares (L. capensis, n = 9) and European brown hares (L. europaeus, n = 244) to reveal genetic relationships among them. European mountain hares (L. timidus, n = 200) were used for outgroup comparison. In the Tunisian hares 27.5% of the loci were polymorphic with 2-4 alleles. Among all alleles at polymorphic loci, 15.1% occurred exclusively in Tunisian hares, 5.7% exclusively in cape hares, and 7.5% exclusively in brown hares at low frequencies. Not a single locus showed alternately fixed alleles between the samples of the L. capensis/L. europaeus complex. Levels of absolute and relative genetic differentiation among the samples of the L. capensis/L. europaeus complex were low, relative to pairwise comparisons involving mountain hares. Diverse cluster analyses and multidimensional scaling of various pairwise genetic distance matrices concordantly grouped Tunisian hares with brown hares, and South African cape hares clustered only slightly farther apart, whereas mountain hares were distinctly separate. These results suggest regionally distinct phylogenetic units within an overall cohesive gene pool in the L. capensis/L. europaeus complex, supporting Petter's view that all North African hares belong to L. capensis except for one local population of savanna hares, and that cape hares and brown hares are conspecific.

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Biochemical Genetic Relationships Among Tunisian Hares (Lepus sp.), South African Cape Hares (L. capensis), and European Brown Hares (L. europaeus)

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“…The second, based on 31 characters excluding the ®rst upper incisors, accounts for previous work that emphasized I 1 characters in the intergeneric taxonomy of Lepus (e.g. Petter, 1959Petter, , 1961Petter, , 1963Robinson, 1986). An unrooted Fitch±Margoliash dendrogram, accounting for possible differences in the anagenesis of this character system among taxa, is shown in Fig.…”

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“…We also carried out a cluster analysis based on pairwise MMD values to check for an in¯uence of the I 1 , a tooth considered to be important for intrageneric classi®cation of the genus Lepus (e.g. Petter, 1959Petter, , 1961Petter, , 1963Robinson, 1986). The modi®ed data set produced a change in the positions of the East African cape hares and the central European brown hares in relation to the Israeli hares, but all three Israeli samples remained together in one cluster (Fig.…”

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Epigenetic dental variability of Israeli hares (Lepus sp.): ecogenetic or phylogenetic causation?

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We examined 3747 teeth from 134 hares (Lepus sp.) 1 collected at 46 sites in Israel to test whether variation in epigenetic occlusal characters was linked to ecogenetic or phylogenetic factors. Collection sites encompassed a wide range of ecogeographical and climatic regimes. We compared data from Israeli hares with occlusal characters of 160 cape hares L. capensis from East Africa and 68 brown hares L. europaeus from central Europe. Only three teeth (I 1 , I 2 , M 3 ) did not show occlusal variation. Thirty-eight occlusal characters were derived from dental variants by dichotomous (0/1) scoring. Absence of association of character states among characters of single teeth indicated a lack of morphotypes. Epigenetic differentiation among hares from northern, central and southern Israel, and the two East African, and two central European samples, was revealed by pairwise C. A. B. Smith's`mean measures of divergence' (MMD), based on frequencies of character states. Cluster analyses of MMD values revealed little epigenetic differentiation between northern and southern Israeli hares, but greater differentiation between central European and East African hares. Concordance of the MMD matrix with linear geographical distances among sampling regions was demonstrated by a Mantel test. No frequencies of character states exhibited signi®cant changes across the climatic parameters among hares from northern and southern Israel. But the individual folding index, which expresses the degree of enamel on the occlusal surface, slightly decreased from north to south. Our results support a phylogenetic interpretation of occlusal character variation. Despite distinct differences in external appearance, hares from northern and southern Israel probably comprise a single species that encompasses two closely related geographical populations with a probable area of overlap. Israeli hares are intermediate between European brown hares and East African cape hares, with a slightly closer relationship to the cape hares.

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“…As clarified by Hoffman and Smith (2005), the species europaeus was earlier placed in capensis based on a cline of morphological characters mainly size as interpreted by Petter (1961). Hoffmann and Smith (2005) recognize L. europaeus and L. capensis as valid species.…”

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Mammalia, Lagomorpha, Leporidae, Lepus europaeus, Pallas, 1778: distribution extension, first confirmed record for Paraguay

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Mantilla-Meluk²,

Ramírez³

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Éléments D’une Révision Des Lièvres Africains Du Sous-Genre Lepus

Cited by 35 publications

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Biochemical Genetic Relationships Among Tunisian Hares (Lepus sp.), South African Cape Hares (L. capensis), and European Brown Hares (L. europaeus)

Biochemical Genetic Relationships Among Tunisian Hares (Lepus sp.), South African Cape Hares (L. capensis), and European Brown Hares (L. europaeus)

Epigenetic dental variability of Israeli hares (Lepus sp.): ecogenetic or phylogenetic causation?

Mammalia, Lagomorpha, Leporidae, Lepus europaeus, Pallas, 1778: distribution extension, first confirmed record for Paraguay

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