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Cape Springhare
Pedetes capensis (J. R. Forster, 1778)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Rodentia - rodents »  family Pedetidae - Springhares »  genus Pedetes - Springhares

Other names

= South African Springhare
= Southern African Springhare

Images

Pedetes capensis - Cape Springhare

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Pedetes capensis - Cape Springhare

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Pedetes capensis - Cape Springhare

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Pedetes capensis - Cape Springhare

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Pedetes capensis - Cape Springhare

Author: Pavel Zuber

Pedetes capensis - Cape Springhare

Author: Pavel Zuber

Pedetes capensis - Cape Springhare

Author: Pavel Zuber

Intertaxon relationships

predator: Leptailurus serval (von Schreber, 1776) - Serval, Cynictis penicillata (G. Cuvier, 1829) - Yellow Mongoose, Caracal caracal (von Schreber, 1776) - Caracal

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [16467]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Pedetes capensis (Forster, 1778)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1001845]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Pedetes capensis (J. R. Forster, 1778)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Pedetes capensis Forster, 1778]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [256:springhase-pedetes-capensis&Itemid=274]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Pedetes capensis (Forster, 1778)]

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