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Oryctolagus cuniculus (European rabbit)

Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

Taxonomy
Lepus cuniculus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Lepus (Oryctolagus) cuniculus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927); it was recombined as Oryctolagus cuniculus by Thomas (1911), Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995) and Worthy (1997).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. lacosti, O. laynensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Lepus cuniculus Linnaeus p. 58
1911Oryctolagus cuniculus Thomas p. 145
1927Lepus (Oryctolagus) cuniculus Boule and De Villeneuve p. 80
1995Oryctolagus cuniculus Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 238
1997Oryctolagus cuniculus Worthy p. 112

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
—Glires()
—Duplicidentata()
orderLagomorphaBrandt 1885
familyLeporidae
subfamilyLeporinaeTrouessart 1880
genusOryctolagusLilljeborg 1874
speciescuniculus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Oryctolagus cuniculus Linnaeus 1758 [European rabbit]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available