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

Brown hare - Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778

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Quick facts

Threat status Europe	Least Concern (IUCN)
Protected by	1 international agreement
Most preferred habitats	agricultural mosaics cropland grassland heathland and shrub woodland and forest

Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Least Concern

Europe

Least Concern

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

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EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Mentioned in the following international legal instruments and agreements

Legal text	Annex	Conditions	More information
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats (Bern Convention)	Annex III: protected fauna species		http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cul.../bern/default_en.asp

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Brown hare	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Europski zec	Croatian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Fälthare	Swedish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Feldhase	German	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Gráhéri	Icelandic	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Haas	Dutch	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Halljänes	Estonian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Hare	Danish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Hues	Luxemburgish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Iepure	Romanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Iepurele-de-câmp	Romanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Lebre-europeia	Portuguese	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Lepre europea	Italian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Lepuri i eger	Albanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Liebre europea	Spanish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Liebru	Maltese	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Lièvre d'Europe	French	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Mezei nyúl	Hungarian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Pilkasis kiškis	Lithuanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Poljski zajec	Slovenian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Rusakko	Finnish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Sørhare	Norwegian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Zajíc polní	Czech	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.

No synonyms available.

Other resources

CoL (accepted name)	Catalogue of Life
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
NOBANIS: Lepus europaeus	European Network on Invasive Alien Species
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

External data

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