Common tapeti: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common tapeti lives – recorded in 6 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Sylvilagus brasiliensis
Group	Rabbits, hares & pikas
Status	Endangered (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	6 countries
Continents	South America
Class	Mammal
Order	Lagomorpha
Family	Leporidae

Where does the common tapeti live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common tapeti in 6 countries and territories across South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Aragarças.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the common tapeti endangered?

The common tapeti’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Endangered” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common tapeti?

The common tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis) is a mammal in the order Lagomorpha and the family Leporidae, genus Sylvilagus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common tapeti

The common tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis), 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.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common tapeti (revision 1380890210), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q856610 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).