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taxonomic family , withinorder Lagomorpha - therabbits andhares
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Because getting ornery with police is a characteristic behavior of rainforest-dwelling mammals of the Leporidae family.
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The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two families, the Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and the Ochotonidae (pikas).
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Family Species Suidae Sus salvanius* Leporidae Caprolagus hispidus An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.
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Within Lagomorpha, rabbits and hares make up the clade Leporidae, and the less well-known pikas (aka ochotonids) form their sister-taxon.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Investigation showed, however, that the question involved was not whether members of the family Leporidae existed, but whether rabbit-hare hybrids did.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A new species of Nesolagus (Lagomorpha, Leporidae) from Vietnam with osteological description.
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_Muridae_, rats; _Hystricidae_, porcupines; and _Leporidae_, hares; which indeed are considered by some to embrace the whole of the order; to which has recently been added the _Saccomyidae_, or pouched rats, whilst many systematists make separate families of the dormice,
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Rodents are easily disposed of in two families -- _Leporidae_ and
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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If the child replies, "No I'm not," he's either a future philosopher, or, much more likely, he's saying not that he is not a member of the family Leporidae, but that he wishes his mother would stop treating him that way.
3quarksdaily 2009
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_Leporidae_; skull depressed; the frontals are contracted, without the wing-like processes of the hares; a single perforation in the facial surface of the maxillaries; a curious prolongation of the posterior angle of the malar into a process extending almost to the ear tube, or auditory meatus; the basisphenoid is not perforated and separated from the vomer as in _Lepus_; the coronoid process is in the form of a tubercle; the clavicles are complete; ears short; limbs nearly equal; no tail.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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