Bogota tapeti

The Bogota tapeti, Sylvilagus apollinaris, is a species of cottontail rabbit in the family Leporidae. It is closely related to the common tapeti, Sylvilagus brasiliensis, and is endemic to a region south of the Isthmus of Panama that is generally described as northern Colombia. For many years it was treated as a subspecies, either of the common tapeti or of the Andean tapeti, Sylvilagus andinus. It was split off and recognised as a separate species in 2017, and later morphological work examined in the literature supported keeping it apart from Sylvilagus brasiliensis. The species is a good example of how South American cottontails are being resolved into several distinct tapeti species as specimens are reexamined.