Alilepus
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| Alilepus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | †Alilepus Dice, 1931 |
| Type species | |
| Alilepus annectens (Schlosser, 1924) | |
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Alilepus is an extinct genus of rabbit from the Miocene to Pliocene of North America and Eurasia. The type species is Alilepus annectens, which had previously been described as Lepus annectens in 1924. Alilepus may be a direct ancestor of the extant striped rabbit, Nesolagus.[1]
