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title: "Tapiti"
description: "Sylvilagus brasiliensis — Mamíferos. The common tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis), also known as the Brazilian cottontail, forest cottontail, or (formerly) simply tapeti is a species of cottontail rabbit."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/common-tapeti
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tapiti

> Sylvilagus brasiliensis — Mamíferos. The common tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis), also known as the Brazilian cottontail, forest cottontail, or (formerly) simply tapeti is a species of cottontail rabbit.

- Scientific name: *Sylvilagus brasiliensis*
- Category: `mammals` (Mamíferos)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `jungle` (Selva)
- iNaturalist observations: 713
- Wikidata: [Q856610](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q856610)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43107](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43107)

## Names

- en: Common Tapeti
- de: Brasilianisches Waldkaninchen
- es: Conejo tropical
- fr: Lapin du Brésil
- nl: Braziliaans konijn
- pt: Tapiti

## Countries with the most observations

BR (356), AR (107), PE (26), BO (23), PY (11), CO (9), EC (7)

## Summary

The common tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis), also known as the Brazilian cottontail, forest cottontail, or (formerly) simply tapeti is a species of cottontail rabbit. It is small to medium-sized with a small, dark tail, short hind feet, and short ears. As traditionally defined, its range extends from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, but this includes several distinctive population that have since been split into separate species. Under this narrower definition, the true common tapeti only occurs in the Atlantic Rainforest of coastal northeastern Brazil and it is classified as an endangered species by the IUCN…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_tapeti

## Photo

![Tapiti](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-tapeti/medium.jpg)

Photo: Diego Carús · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/241137912

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-tapeti?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).