Endangered
Tapeti
Sylvilagus brasiliensis
Tapeti is a mammal in the family Leporidae (order Lagomorpha) — Sylvilagus brasiliensis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The color of its back is brown with a speckled appearance (resulting from the black hair tips), and it has a rufous spot on its neck.
It has a head-body length of 320 mm (13 in), a tail that is 21 mm (0.83 in), hind feet measuring 71 mm (2.8 in), and ears that are 54 mm (2.1 in) (measured from notch to tip). It weighs an average of 934 g (32.9 oz).
Range and habitat
The common Tapeti occurs in tropical rain forests, deciduous forests, and second-growth forests in Mexico and Central America, as well as pastures surrounding forest habitat. Its range extends from southern Tamaulipas in Mexico, south along the eastern coast of Mexico, through Guatemala, possibly El Salvador, Honduras, eastern Nicaragua, eastern Costa Rica, and Panama. It occurs through the northern half of South America, among them Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina, and much of Brazil.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
As traditionally defined, its range extends from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, but this includes several distinctive population that have since been split into separate species. Under this narrower definition, the true common Tapeti only occurs in the Atlantic Rainforest of coastal northeastern Brazil and it is classified as an endangered species by the IUCN. The American Society of Mammalogists concurs, but also tentatively classifies several distinct populations that have not yet received proper species names into S. Brasiliensis, and so considers it to range from Venezuela south to Argentina.
Tapeti is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Tapeti, Wikidata item Q856610. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
