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Hares, which include jackrabbits, have especially long ears and large hind feet. Their feet are well furred. The upper body is usually brown or grayish brown, while the under parts are lighter colored, even white. Most species have black ear tips. In some species, the upper side of the tail is also black. Slender-bodied jack rabbits make long, high leaps.
But most hares live in open country, including northern tundra (arctic hare and tundra hare) or grasslands and deserts (jackrabbits). The blue, or mountain hare inhabits either coniferous forest or tundra, and the European, or brown hare occupies either open country or forest.
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• blue or mountain hare (Lepus timidus) Eurasian tundra & boreal forest, European Alps, Ireland & Scotland , Sakhalin & Hokkaido , Japan |
• European hare, brown hare (Lepus capensis) North America & Eurasia south of the boreal forest except northeastern China and Japan, nonforested parts of Africa
• (Lepus castroviejoi) [range includes northern Spain]
• Italian hare (Lepus corsicanus)
• (Lepus europaeus) [range includes Turkey]
• Manchurian hare (Lepus mandshuricus) lower Amur region of extreme southeastern Siberia, Manchuria, North Korea
• Chinese hare (Lepus sinensis) Korea, eastern China, Taiwan
• (Lepus tolai) northeastern China?
• Yarkand hare (Lepus yarkandensis) southwestern Sinkiang
• Japanese hare (Lepus brachyurus) Japan
• woolly hare (Lepus oiostolus) Tibet & adjacent highlands
• (Lepus nigricollis) India , Nepal , Sikkim , Bhutan , Sri Lanka
• (Lepus pequensis [perquensis?]) Burma, Thailand, Indochina, Hainan |
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• arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) Canadian tundra, Newfoundland, Greenland
• Alaska hare, tundra hare (Lepus othus) northern & western Alaska
• snowshoe or varying hare (Lepus americanus) Alaska, Canada, and northern and mountainous regions of the lower 48 states Unlike most hares, it inhabits forests. |
• white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii) south-central British Columbia & east-central California to central Manitoba and northern Missouri
• black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) central & western U.S., northern Mexico, Baja California
• antelope jackrabbit (Lepus alleni) southern Arizona, northwestern Mexico
• white-sided jackrabbit (Lepus callotis) extreme southwestern New Mexico, parts of northwestern and cental Mexico
• (Lepus insularis) Espiritu Santo Island off southeastern Baja California
• (Lepus flavigularis) extreme southern Mexico |
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