Lepus audubonii Baird
Date 1859
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43276730 Mammals of North America; the description of species based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
Author Spencer Fullerton Baird
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The desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii), also known as Audubon's cottontail, is a New World cottontail rabbit, and a member of the family Leporidae. Cottontails give birth to their kits in burrows vacated by other mammals. Like all cottontail rabbits, the desert cottontail has a greyish-brown, rounded tail with a broad white edge and white underside, which is visible as it runs away. It also has white fur on the belly.

Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Sylvilagus
Species: Sylvilagus audubonii (Baird, 1858)