Sylvilagus leonensis

Sylvilagus leonensis, the dwarf cottontail, is an extinct species of rabbit from the Late Pleistocene, known from the San Josecito Cave in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.^[2]

Sylvilagus leonensis Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Lagomorpha
Family:	Leporidae
Genus:	Sylvilagus
Species:	†S. leonensis
Binomial name
†Sylvilagus leonensis (Cushing, 1945)[1]

The dwarf cottontail was smaller than living cottontail species, comparable in size to the living pygmy rabbit.^[3]