Corsican Pika

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Corsican Pika
Conservation status: Extinct (1700s)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Lagomorpha
Family:Ochotonidae
Genus:Prolagus
Species: P. corsicanus
Binomial name
Prolagus corsicanus
(Wagner, 1829)

The Corsican Pika (Prolagus corsicanus) was a pika native to the Mediterranean island of Corsica until its extinction in the late 1700s or early 1800s. It and the Sardinian Pika, also extinct, were the only two animals belonging to the genus Prolagus.



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