Amami rabbit
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The Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi; Amami: [ʔosaɡi]), or Amami no-kuro-usagi (アマミノクロウサギ 奄美野黒兔, lit. "Amami wild black rabbit"), also known as the Ryukyu rabbit is a dark-furred rabbit which is only found in Amami Ōshima and Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern Kyūshū and Okinawa in Japan. Often called a living fossil, the Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once lived on the Asian mainland, where they died out, remaining only on the two small Japanese islands where they live today.[3]
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Amami rabbit[1] | |
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Taxidermy specimen at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Japan. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Lagomorpha |
Family: | Leporidae |
Genus: | Pentalagus Lyon, 1904 |
Species: | P. furnessi |
Binomial name | |
Pentalagus furnessi (Stone, 1900) | |
Amami rabbit range |
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