Santa Marta tapeti

The Santa Marta tapeti, Sylvilagus sanctaemartae, is a cottontail rabbit native to the lowlands of northern Colombia. It was previously considered a subspecies of the common tapeti, but an analysis in 2017 confirmed that it is sufficiently distinct in both appearance and genetics to be considered a species in its own right. Its name comes from the mountain range where the species was first discovered, its type locality, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Like several other former members of the common tapeti complex, including the Andean tapeti, the Central American tapeti, Dice's cottontail and the coastal tapeti, it was recognised as a separate species only after that review, and little of its biology has been described in the sources read for this entry.