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when he erected Duplicidentata. At the time, the rabbit, pikas, and hares were contained in only two genera, Lepus and Lagomys (the hares and the pikas), and it was seen as necessary to further distinguish these animals from rodents based on their teeth, specifically the lagomorphs' four upper incisors. Naturalists would apply various names to this grouping through the following decades, with one of these names being Leporidae, which would later be used to describe just the hares and rabbits. Johann Friedrich

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