Editing Amami rabbit (section)

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| name = Amami rabbit  
| fossil_range = Late Pleistocene - present {{Ma|0.03|0}}
| status = EN
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Yamada, F. and Smith, A.T. |date=2016 |title=''Pentalagus furnessi'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T16559A45180151 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T16559A45180151.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
| image = Pentalagus furnessi 387708672.jpg
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| genus = Pentalagus
| parent_authority = [[Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.|Lyon]], 1904
| species = furnessi
| authority = ([[Witmer Stone|Stone]], 1900)
| range_map = Amami Rabbit area.png
| range_map_caption = Amami rabbit range
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The '''Amami rabbit''' ('''''Pentalagus furnessi'''''), also known as the '''Ryukyu rabbit''', is a dark-furred species of [[rabbit]] which is found only on [[Amami Ōshima]] and [[Tokunoshima]], two small islands between southern [[Kyūshū]] and [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]] in Japan. Often called a [[living fossil]], the Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once lived on the Asian mainland, where they died out, remaining only on the two small Japanese islands where they live today.<ref>{{cite journal|author =Robinson, T. |author2=Yang, F. |author3=Harrison, W. |name-list-style=amp |year=2002|title= Chromosome painting refines the history of genome evolution in hares and rabbits (order Lagomorpha)|pmid=12438803|journal= Cytogenetic and Genome Research |pages= 223–227|volume=96|issue=1–4|doi=10.1159/000063034|s2cid=19327437 }}</ref>