Sylvilagus brasiliensis
The common tapeti, also known as the Brazilian cottontail, forest cottontail, or (formerly) simply tapeti is a species of cottontail rabbit. It is small to medium-sized with a small, dark tail, short hind feet, and short ears. As traditionally defined, its range extends from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, but this includes several distinctive population that have since been split into separate species. Under this narrower definition, the true common tapeti only occurs in the Atlantic Rainforest of coastal northeastern Brazil and it is classified as an endangered species by the IUCN. The American Society of Mammalogists concurs, but also tentatively classifies several distinct populations that have not yet received proper species names into S. brasiliensis, and so considers it to range from Venezuela south to Argentina.
vinicius_s_domingues · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- tapetiPBDB
- Sits inside
- SylvilagusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Leporidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Leporidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Sylvilagus brasiliensis on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
6 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Sylvilagus brasiliensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Sylvilagus brasiliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Conepatus4 sites
- Lagidium peruanum4 sites
- Marmosa3 sites
- Aotus trivirgatus2 sites
- Bassaricyon gabbii2 sites
- Bradypus variegatus2 sites
- Choloepus hoffmanni2 sites
- Cuniculus paca2 sites
- Cyclopes2 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus2 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis2 sites
- Eira barbara2 sites
- Homo sapiens2 sites
- Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris2 sites
- Leopardus pardalis2 sites
- Mazama americana2 sites
- Metachirus nudicaudatus2 sites
- Nasua nasua2 sites
- Oryzomys2 sites
- Panthera onca2 sites
- Pecari tajacu2 sites
- Philander opposum2 sites
- Potos flavus2 sites
- Procyon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sylvilagus brasiliensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Faunal remains4
- Barro Colorado Island and Tropical Biology1
- An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological Station1
Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sylvilagus brasiliensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- vinicius_s_domingues
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sylvilagus brasiliensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSylvilagus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)