Santa Marta tapeti

{{Short description|Species of mammal}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Ruedas, L.A.|author2=Smith, A.T. |year=2019 |title=Sylvilagus sanctaemartae |volume=2019 |page=e.T142642715A165117201 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T142642715A165117201.en |access-date=7 October 2024}}

| genus = Sylvilagus

| species = sanctaemartae

| authority = (P. Hershkovitz, 1950){{cite web |url=https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001144 |title=Sylvilagus sanctaemartae Hershkovitz, 1950 |website=ASM Mammal Diversity Database |publisher= American Society of Mammalogists |access-date=7 October 2024 |date=13 July 2024}}

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| synonyms = Sylvilagus brasiliensis sanctaemartae
P. Hershkovitz (1950)

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The Santa Marta tapeti (Sylvilagus sanctaemartae) is a species of cottontail rabbit native to the lowlands of northern Colombia.{{Cite journal |last1=Diersing |first1=Victor E |last2=Wilson |first2=Don E |date=2017-12-01 |title=Systematic status of the rabbits Sylvilagus brasiliensis and S. sanctaemartae from northwestern South America with comparisons to Central American populations |url=https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/98/6/1641/4430508 |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |language=en |volume=98 |issue=6 |pages=1641–1656 |doi=10.1093/jmammal/gyx133 |issn=0022-2372}} It was previously considered a subspecies of the common tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis) but analysis in 2017 confirmed that it is sufficiently distinct in both appearance and genetics to be considered a species in its own right.{{cite journal | author=Ruedas | author2=French | author3=Silva | author4=Platt II | author5=Salazar-Bravo | author6=Mora | author7=Thompson | year=2017 | title=A prolegomenon to the systematics of South American cottontail rabbits (Mammalia, Lagomorpha, Leporidae: Sylvilagus): designation of a neotype for S. brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758), and restoration of S. andinus (Thomas, 1897) and S. tapetillus Thomas, 1913 | journal=University of Michigan | volume=205 | issn=0076-8405}}{{Citation |title=Lagomorphs (rabbits & hares) |date=2024-12-31 |work=A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of South America |pages=79–82 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691254975-012/html |access-date=2024-10-07 |publisher=Princeton University Press |doi=10.1515/9780691254975-012 |isbn=978-0-691-25497-5|url-access=subscription }} The name Santa Marta tapeti is derived from the mountain range where the species was first discovered (its type locality), the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.{{cite journal |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15674276 |title=Mammals of northern Colombia, preliminary report No. 6 : Rabbits (Leporidae), with notes on the classification and distribution of the South American forms |last=Hershkovitz |first=Philip |date=1950 |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |volume=100 |issue=3265 |pages=353–355 |publisher=Washington Smithsonian Institution Press|doi=10.5479/si.00963801.100-3265.327 }}