Order Lagomorpha
1) "hair-like" animals
2) vegetarian, reingestion of fecal pellets
3) 2 pairs of upper incisors, inner pair reduced and lacks cutting edge
4) maxilla porous appearance
5) location of scrotum is in front of penis
6) very small (inconspicuous) orbital process on skull
Family Leporidae
a) long ears long hind legs, bulging eyes
Example:
1) Sylvilagus floridanus - Eastern cottontail
Skin: rust colored cape, some have white on forehead, short, bushy white tail, whitish feet.2) Sylvilagus palustris - Marsh rabbit
Skin: dark brown above, white below, feet brown, tail small and brownish underneath, small thin feet3) Syvilagus transitionalis - New England cottontail
Skin: black patch between earns, never white on forehead, short ears with black stripe on outer edge.4) Lepus arcticus - Arctic hare
Skin: white in winter - hairs white to base, black car tips, tail and feet always white, Summer - grayish-brown5) Lepus americanus - Snowshoe hare
Skin: Winter - white with hairs yellowish at base.
Tail brownish above, feet brown.
Lepus Skull characteristics: large "butterfly" shaped orbital process
