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Desmatolagus
Taxonomy
Desmatolagus was named by Matthew and Granger (1923). Its type is Desmatolagus gobiensis.
It was assigned to Palaeolaginae by Dawson (1958); to Desmatolaginae by Burke (1941), Lopatin (1998); to Ochotonidae by Wang and Wang (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), Meng and Hu (2004), Wang and Qiu (2004); and to Leporidae by Matthew and Granger (1923), Meng et al. (2005), Bendukidze et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Palaeolaginae by Dawson (1958); to Desmatolaginae by Burke (1941), Lopatin (1998); to Ochotonidae by Wang and Wang (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), Meng and Hu (2004), Wang and Qiu (2004); and to Leporidae by Matthew and Granger (1923), Meng et al. (2005), Bendukidze et al. (2009).
Species
D. ardynense, D. chinensis, D. gazini, D. gobiensis (syn. D. radicidens, D. shargaltensis, Procaprolagus mongolicus, D. parvidens, Procaprolagus orlovi, Sinolagomys tatalgolicus) (type species), D. orlovi, D. periaralicus, D. pusillus, D. robustus (syn. Agispelagus youngi, Procaprolagus maximus), D. schizopetrus, D. simplex, D. veletus, D. vetustus, D. vusillus, D. youngi
Species lacking formal opinion data