Back Pronolagus Afrikaans قواعات الصخر الأحمر Arabic قواعات الصخر الاحمر ARZ Libol (Pronolagus) AVK Conill roquer Catalan Pronolagus CEB Rotkaninchen German Pronolagus Spanish Pronolagus Basque خرگوش سنگی سرخ Persian
| Pronolagus | |
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| Illustration of P. crassicaudatus from Geoffroy, 1832 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | Pronolagus Lyon, 1904[1][2] |
| Type species | |
| Lepus crassicaudatus I. Geoffroy, 1832
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The red rock hares are the four species in the genus Pronolagus.[3][4] They are African lagomorphs of the family Leporidae. Initially described as members of the genus Lepus or Oryctolagus, the genus Pronolagus was proposed in 1904 to describe a skeleton of P. crassicaudatus, which was at that time labeled under the genus Lepus. This would become the type species of the red rock hare genus. The red rock hares are distributed across Southern Africa, and vary in size, with some shared physical characteristics being short ears and a lack of an interpareital bone.[5]
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