Editing Amami rabbit (section)

== Evolution ==
''Pentalagus'' is thought to be a descendant of ''[[Pliopentalagus]],'' known from the [[Pliocene]] of China and Eastern to Central Europe.<ref>{{Citation |last=Yamada |first=Fumio |title=A Review of the Biology and Conservation of the Amami Rabbit (''Pentalagus furnessi'') |date=2008 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-540-72446-9_25 |work=Lagomorph Biology |pages=369–377 |editor-last=Alves |editor-first=Paulo C. |access-date=2020-09-07 |place=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-72446-9_25 |isbn=978-3-540-72445-2 |editor2-last=Ferrand |editor2-first=Nuno |editor3-last=Hackländer |editor3-first=Klaus|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It is also closely related to the North American genus ''[[Aztlanolagus]]'' (which may be synonynous with ''Pliopentalagus''), which became extinct sometime after 30,000 years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tomida |first1=Yukimitsu |last2=Jin |first2=Chang-Zhu |last3=Winkler |first3=Alisa J. |last4=Oshima |first4=Mitsuharu |date=2024-12-20 |title=Aztlanolagus revisited and the dynamic evolution of Pliopentalagus (Leporidae, Lagomorpha) in the Holarctic region |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/AMNPSBHN/article/view/86604 |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=80 |issue=2 |language=en |pages=229–238 |doi=10.37520/fi.2024.018 |issn=2533-4069|doi-access=free }}</ref> The closest living relative of the Amami rabbit has been suggested to be the Central African [[Bunyoro rabbit]] (''Poelagus'' ''marjorita'').<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cano-Sánchez |first1=Estefania |last2=Rodríguez-Gómez |first2=Flor |last3=Ruedas |first3=Luis A. |last4=Oyama |first4=Ken |last5=León-Paniagua |first5=Livia |last6=Mastretta-Yanes |first6=Alicia |last7=Velazquez |first7=Alejandro |date=June 2022 |title=Using Ultraconserved Elements to Unravel Lagomorph Phylogenetic Relationships |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10914-021-09595-0 |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |language=en |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=395–411 |doi=10.1007/s10914-021-09595-0 |issn=1064-7554|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Uniquely among rabbits, it has 46 [[Ploidy|diploid chromosomes]].<ref>{{Lagomorphs2018|first1=Fumio|last1=Yamada|chapter=''Pentalagus furnessi'' (Stone, 1900) Amami Rabbit}}</ref>