Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Lepus californicus
Photo by Robert Shantz Southeast of Safford, Arizona. March 7, 2003.
In the Sonoran Desert these large rabbits tend to occur in open areas with a fairly good vegetation layer. Thus they are more common near agricultural fields and along flood plains of the major waterways.
Leporidae -- Hare & Rabbit Family
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- Univ. of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Mammals of Texas
- ITIS Taxonomic Report
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- Reference: Mammals of Arizona (1986), D. F. Hoffmeister, Univ. of Arizona Press.