Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Lepus
Species: californicus

Black-tailed jackrabbit

Range and Distribution

Reproduction

Habitat

Human/Economic Values

Current Management Status

Literature Cited

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Black-tailed jackrabbits occur in dry grasslands of central North America and throughout shrub grasslands of western North America (Clark 1987). They are distributed

throughout the southwestern United States into Mexico, east to Missouri and northwest to Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska (Ballenger 2000).