By Joseph A. Chapman, John E. C. Flux (auth.), Professor Dr. Paulo C. Alves, Professor Dr. Nuno Ferrand, Professor Dr. Klaus Hackländer (eds.)
Lagomorphs are a mammalian order together with rabbits, hares and pikas. they're disbursed during the global and are of either clinical and public curiosity as they're labeled among endangered and pest species. additionally, a few have a excessive fiscal price as vital online game species. within the previous few a long time, a tremendous quantity of data was once made to be had to the medical neighborhood and ended in outstanding advances on all facets of Lagomorph biology. even though, this knowledge is dispersed in a number of medical and non-scientific journals. This ebook presents an up-to-date synthesis of the present wisdom on Lagomorph biology.
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Lopez-Martinez and p3 morphology (large lingual anteroconid, longitudinally oriented anterior fold) are however clearly rabbit-like. Another large rabbit species (+O. burgi) possibly related to +O. lacosti has been described in Middle Pleistocene of Italy. The living species O. 6 Ma) associated to a relict, warm-type fauna. An Early Pleistocene reference to this species in Turkey needs to be confirmed. Relatively robust races of this species are recorded in Middle Pleistocene of France and the central Iberian Peninsula (+’O.
To preserve the insular biological diversity, the species has been subject of several attempts of eradication in the course of the last decade. The only case of eradication carried out in the Mediterranean basin concerned the archipelago of Columbretes, Spain (Jimenez 1994). A total of 175 individuals was eradicated from the island of Columbrete Grande (14 ha), where their former occurrence drastically changed the climax community Chamaeropo humilis-Rhamnetum lycioidis. It was possible to report the coexistence of the European hare and the European rabbit from several Greek islands, such as Aegina (Saronic Gulf), Gadaironisi, Theodoru, and Koufonisi (circum-Cretan islands), Paros, Andros, Milos, Leros and Tinos (Cyclades), Kos (Dodecanese), Lesbos and Prehistoric and Historic Artificial Dispersal of Lagomorphs 19 Fourni (north-eastern Aegean Islands).
Upper premolars are molarized and the upper third molar (M3) is preserved but reduced to a single lobe. Trigonids and talonids have lingual connections and the mandible has a single mental foramen. The skull has a basicranial angle of near 30°. These features are probably derived, while the presence of a bilobed lower third molar is a primitive feature. Other apparently primitive traits, such as the premolar foramen extremely reduced or absent and the uniserial incisor enamel could in fact be secondary acquisitions.