Evolutionary Distinctiveness
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
The only species in its genus, the Amami rabbit is one of the most primitive lagomorphs in the world. It is so different from other rabbits and hares that it is considered to belong to an early branch of the main rabbit-hare evolutionary tree. Its ancestors are believed to have diverged from other leporids between 10 and 20 million years ago, about half as long ago as ancestral rabbits separated from pikas...read more... http://www.edgeofexistence.org/mammals/species_info.php?id=44
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