Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis Blyth 1855 Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis Blyth 1855, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 471. Type Locality: " Pegu " [Upper Pegu, Burma]. Vernacular Names: Burmese Hare. Subspecies:: Subspecies Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis subsp. peguensis Blyth 1855 Subspecies Lepus (Indolagus) peguensis subsp. vassali Thomas 1906 Distribution: C, S Burma from Chindwin River valley east through Thailand; Cambodia; S Laos, S Vietnam; south in upper Malay Peninsula (Burma, Thailand) to 120EN. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus Indolagus by Gureev (1964:144) in Caprolagus (Indolagus); he ranked siamensis as a distinct species; but see Lekagul and McNeely (1977:333) and Flux and Angermann (1990). Petter (1961 a) suggested that peguensis might be conspecific with nigricollis because of its close resemblance to L. n. ruficaudatus. However, L. n. ruficaudatus appears to be allopatric with respect to peguensis in E India-W Burma. Suchentrunk (2004:28) considered the separate species status of L. peguensis still open. Formerly included hainanus (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1955), which is here considered a full species.

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 185-211 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 202, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519