Lagomorpha

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Leporidae

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Ochotonidae

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The Lagomorphs, order Lagomorpha, are an order of mammals of which there are two families, Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and Ochotonidae (pikas).

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Though members of order Lagomorpha can resemble rodents (order Rodentia), and were classified as a superfamily in that order until the early twentieth century, and have since been considered a separate order. For a time it was trendy to consider the lagomorphs only distant relatives of the rodents, to whom they merely bore a superficial resemblance, however genetic studies have since shown that, while still distinct from rodents, they are indeed very closely related after all.

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Order: Order (from Latin ordo "row, rank, series, arrangement", Old French ordre from the Latin accusative, ordinem, attested in English from the 1220s). The word conveys a notion of "a system of parts subject to certain uniform, established ranks or proportions", an idea very central to scholastic thoug...

Rabbit: Pentalagus...

Superfamily: In biology, a superfamily is a taxonomic rank intermediate between suborder and family....