Amami rabbit
| Amami rabbit Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - present 0.03 to 0 million years ago | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | Pentalagus Lyon, 1904 |
| Species: | P. furnessi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pentalagus furnessi (Stone, 1900) | |
| Amami rabbit range | |
The Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi), also known as the Ryukyu rabbit, is a dark-furred species of rabbit which is found only on Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima, two small islands between southern Kyūshū and Okinawa in Japan. Often called a living fossil, the Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once lived on the Asian mainland, where they died out, remaining only on the two small Japanese islands where they live today.