TAXONOMY REPORT

Taxonomy Report

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Taxonomy of Rabbit

Section A

Introduction

Taxonomy and biological systematic are fields of classical, and organism biology. The importance of good taxonomic work-up in collections and in the field realized in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD: to protect species, populations and habitats, the actors can determine the species of animal and plant safe.

The general Taxonomy of a Rabbit can be summarized as Kingdom: Animalia; Subkingdom: Eumetazoa; Rama: Bilateria; Phylum: Chordata; Subphylum: Vertebrata; Superclass: Gnathostomata; Class: Mammalia; Order: Lagomorpha; Family: Leporidae.

Taxonomic Position

The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is part of the order Lagomorphs. It has 2 x 22 = 44 chromosomes. The Lagomorphs (those that look like hare) differs from that of rodents in particular by the existence of a second pair of incisors in the upper jaw. The taxonomic position of the rabbit is the only species of its genus. Consequently, it cannot interbreed with any other lagomorphs. There is therefore no true hybrid between the rabbit species and another "neighbour" species.

Origin and Domestication

Oryctolagus cuniculus is the only domesticated mammal palaeontology whose origin lies in Western Europe. Fossil remains the oldest of its kind are dated about 6 million years back and were found in Andalusia. Historically, the rabbit was "discovered" in Spain around 1000 BC by the Phoenicians. When these great navigators of the eastern Mediterranean landed on the coast of the Iberian Peninsula, they were struck by the proliferation of small burrowing mammals we know today rabbits. As they looked to their country of hyraxes that also live in colonies and dig burrows, the Phoenicians called the country "the land of the hyraxes. Indeed, Saphan (or sephan) in Phoenician means hyrax. This name was later replaced with Latinized name Hispania. Thus, the very name of Spain is related to the historical presence of rabbits on its territory.

Development of Modern Breeds

Within a species, a race is generally regarded as a collection of individuals who share a number of morphological and physiological characteristics they perpetuate when breeding them. There are different types of breeds of rabbits:

Primary or primitive races, or geographical, from which have differentiated all others. They come directly from wild rabbits.

Breeds obtained through artificial selection from the previous example: Fauve de Bourgogne , New Zealand White , Champagne Silver;

The synthetic breeds obtained by crossing several breeds reasoned, for example: the white giant Bouscat , California;

Mendelian breeds, obtained by setting a new character to simple genetic determination, appeared by mutation, e.g. Castorrex, Satin, Japanese, Angora.

It is convenient to group races according to their adult size. Moreover, it is often related to production traits: earliness, prolificacy, growth rate weight, speed reaching maturity.

Taxonomic Classification of Rabbit

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