List of rabbit breeds

thumb|right|Different breeds of rabbit at an exhibition in the Netherlands, 1952

As of 2017, there were at least 305 breeds of the domestic rabbit in 70 countries around the world raised for in the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits as livestock for their value in meat, fur, wool, education, scientific research, entertainment and companionship in cuniculture. A rabbit breed is a distinct strain created through selective breeding (or occasionally natural selection) for specific characteristics, including size, fur, body type, color, feed conversion ratio, et cetera. Organizations such as the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) and the British Rabbit Council (BRC) have standards for the desired qualities of their respective recognized breeds. Each rabbit breed is considered to benefit when a reputable breeder strives to emulate the perfect example for the breed, defined by the individual breed standard by which it may be judged. The global diversity of breeds reflects the breadth of the rabbit's unique qualities. Listed below are 191 of the world's modern-day rabbit breeds.

Modern-day rabbit breeds

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!Breed name

!class="unsortable"|Image

!data-sort-type="number";!scope="col" style="width: 60pt;"|Size

!Fur type

!Ear type

!Colors & markings

!ARBA recognized?

!BRC recognized?

!scope="col" style="width: 110pt;"|Origin

|Alaskan||140px||||Short||Erect||Black||||||

|Altex||||||Short||Erect||Pointed White||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|American||140px||||Short||Erect||Blue, White||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|American Chinchilla [US]   See also:     Chinchilla||140px||||Short||Erect||Chinchilla||||||

|American Fuzzy Lop||140px||||Long||Lop||[All solid or broken colors/patterns]||||||

|American Sable||140px||||Short||Erect||Sable||||||

|Angora||140px||||Long||Erect||Albino or Colored||||||

|Argente Bleu||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||[Argente Bleu markings]||||||

|Argente Brun [UK]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||[Argente Brun [UK] markings]||||||

|Argente Brun [US]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Medium||Erect||[Argente Brun [US] markings]||||||

|Argente Clair||style=text-align:center|70px||||||||||||||

|Baladi Black||style=text-align:center|70px||||Short||Erect||Black||||||

|Baladi Red   Also called:     Große Weißgrannen [de]     Veliki Bijeloopaljeni Kunić [hr]   See also:     Silver Marten||140px||||Short||Erect||[Black, Blue, or Havana with white and/or tan markings, plus white ticking on the lower body]||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Blanc de Bouscat||140px||||Short||Erect||"Completely snow white [...]. Guard hairs sprinkled regularly all over the coat give it a brilliant frosty look."||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Blanc de Hotot||style=text-align:center|140x140px||||Short||Erect||White with dark rings around the eyes||||||

|Blanc de Popielno   Also called:     Popielański Biały [pl]     Popielno White||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||Albino||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Blanc de Termonde||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"Immaculately white. Eyes are ruby red"||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Blue of Ham||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Long||Erect||"Slate blue with a blue sub-color" but "not as dark as the blue Vienna"||||||

|Blue of Sint-Niklaas||140px||||Short||Erect||Blue||||||

|Bourbonnais Grey   Also called:     Gris du Bourbonnais [fr]||140px||||Short||Erect||"Overall color is slate blue with longer gray guard hairs tipped black."||||||

|Brazilian||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||||||||

|Britannia Petite [US]   See also:     Polish [UK]||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Black Otter, Blue-Eyed White, Chestnut, Red-Eyed White, Sable Marten||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|British Giant||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Brown Grey, Dark Steel Grey, Opal, White||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Brown Chestnut of Lorraine   Also called:     Brun Marron de Lorraine [fr]||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||"Chestnut brown uniform color with a well-defined orange-brown outer-color. Under-color bluish including the belly. Ears bluish on their inner side and edged with a black border."||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Caldes||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||Red-Eyed White||||||

|Californian [UK]||140px||||Short||Erect||Four varieties, all being white (with red eyes) with dark points: Normal ("dark sepia" points), Chocolate ("milk chocolate" points), Blue ("slate blue" points), or Lilac ("pink shade of dove" points)||||||

|Californian [US]||140px||||Short||Erect||One variety, being white (with red eyes) with dark points: Standard (black points)||||||

|Canadian Plush Lop   See also:     Rex [US]||style=text-align:center|Image||||Rex  Curly   Medium||Lop||[Includes at least 19 stated colors/patterns]||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Carmagnola Grey||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||[Chinchilla]||||||

|Cashmere Lop   See also:     Miniature Cashmere Lop||140px||||Long||Lop||[Includes >35 different colors/patterns]||||||

|Champagne d'Argent [US]   See also:     Argente de Champagne [UK]||140px||||Short||Erect||[Champagne d'Argent markings]||||||

|Chaudry||style=text-align:center|70px||||Short||Erect||Red-Eyed White||||||

|Checkered Giant [US]   See also:     Giant Papillon [UK]||140px||||Short||Erect||Black (i.e, white with black markings), Blue (i.e., white with gray markings)||||||

|Chinchilla   See main entries:     American Chinchilla [US]     Chinchilla [UK]     Chinchilla Giganta [UK]     Giant Chinchilla [US]     Standard Chinchilla [US]||||||||||||||||

|Chinchilla [UK]||140px||||Short||Erect||"To resemble real Chinchilla."||||||

|Chinchilla Giganta [UK]||140px||||Short||Erect||[Chinchilla, but with] "Desired top colour considerably darker grey than the Chinchilla [i.e., Chinchilla [UK]] rabbit."||||||

|Cinnamon||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||Cinnamon||||||

|Continental Giant Coloured||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||Agouti, Black, Chinchilla, Dark Steel, Light Steel, Opal, Red Agouti, Yellow||||||

|Continental Giant White||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"Immaculate white, eyes pink or blue."||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Creme d'Argent [US]   See also:     Argente Crème [UK]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"Creamy white with an orange cast"||||||

|Criollo||style=text-align:center|70px||||Short||Erect||"Many colors and patterns."||140px||||Short||Erect||Glossy brown||||||

|Czech Red||140px||||Short||Erect||Chestnut||||

|Czech Solver [CZ]   Also called:     Český Luštič   See also:     Beige [UK]     Separator [DE]||140px||||Short||Erect||[sandy colored]||||||

|Czech Spot||140px||||Short||Erect||Agouti, Black, Blue, Isabella (Beige), Tortoise, Tri-color||style=text-align:center|Image||||Long||Erect||[Albino or colored (but not bi-colored)]||||||

|German Lop||140px||||Short||Lop||[Many]||||||

|Giant Angora||140px||||Long||Erect||—||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Giant Chinchilla [US]   See also:     Chinchilla||140px||||Short||Erect||Chinchilla||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Giant Havana   Also called:     Stor Havana [da]     Stora Havana [se]   See also:     Havana [UK]     Havana [US]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"Dark brown and glossy color. The eyes are brown, but from certain points of view they are ruby red."||||||

|Giant Marburger   Also called:     Stor Marburger Egern [da]   See also:     Marburger Feh [UK]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Medium||Erect||"A grey-blue outer color with a brownish undertone."||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Giant Papillon [UK]   See also:     Checkered Giant [US]     Miniature Papillon||140px||||Short||Erect||[Colored butterfly, eye circles, cheek spots, ear base, saddle, and rump spots; all on a base of white.] "All [BRC] recognised colours are admissible."||||||

|Giant Silver   Also called:     Stor Sølv [da]     Stora Sølv [se]   See also:     Silver [UK]     Silver [US]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"The entire body has a black base color mixed with hair with white tips that gives the rabbit a silver sheen."||||||

|Giant Smoke Pearl   Also called:     Stor Zobel [da]     Stora Zobel [se]   See also:     Smoke Pearl||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"A mixture of brown, so-called sepia-colored and beige tones" [with darker points].||||||

|Giza White||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||Albino||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Golden Glavcot||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||—||||||

|Gotland||140px||||Short||Erect||—||||||

|Gouwenaar||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"The body color has a light grey-blue tone throughout the body."||||||

|Grey Pearl of Halle   Also called:     Gris Perle de Hal     Lille Egern     Parelgrijze van Halle||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"The body color is a light grey-blue tone throughout the body."||||||

|Güzelçamlı||style=text-align:center|70px||||Short||Erect||White with chocolate markings||||||

|Harlequin [UK]||140px||||Short||Erect||Harlequin   (includes: Black, Blue, Brown, Lilac) Magpie   (includes: Black, Blue, Brown, Lilac)||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Harlequin [US]||140px||||Short||Erect||Japanese   (includes: Black, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac) Magpie   (includes: Black, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac)||||||

|Harlequin Dutch   See main entry:     Tri-Colour Dutch||||||||||||||||

|Harlequin Rex   Also called:     Magpie Rex     Japanese Rex||140px||||Rex  Straight   Short||Erect||[ Same as for Harlequin [UK] ]||||||

|Havana [UK]   See also:     Giant Havana||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"A rich, dark chocolate with a purplish sheen, [...] pearl-grey undercolour."||||||

|Havana [US]   See also:     Giant Havana||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Broken, Chocolate, Lilac||||||

|Himalayan   Also called:     Russian||140px||||Short||Erect||White with points of either black, blue, chocolate, or lilac||||||

|Holland Lop [US]   See also:     Miniature Lop [UK/NL]||140px||||Short||Lop||Agouti, Broken, Pointed White, Self Colors, Shaded Colors, Tan Pattern, Ticked, Wide Band||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Hulstlander||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||White with blue eyes||||||

|Hungarian Giant||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||[Many]||||||

|Isabella||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"The yellowish brown color is 'coated' with a blue veil, caused by blue hair tips. In front of the head there is the 'mask', which when seen from the front, is oval."||||||

|||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Long||Erect||"[L]ike [Harlequin or] Japanese. The most common color is black / yellow, but black and white may occur."||||||

|Japanese Dutch   See main entry:     Tri-Colour Dutch||||||||||||||||

|Japanese White   Also called:     日本白色種 [ja]   Includes:     ジャンボうさぎ [ja]     Jumbo Usagi||style=text-align:center|140px||||Short||Erect||Albino||||||

|Jersey Wooly||140px||||Long||Erect||[Many]||||||

|Kabyle||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||[Many]||||||

|Lilac [UK]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"An even pink shade of dove colour"||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Lilac [US]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"Pinkish dove-gray"||||||

|Lionhead [UK]||140px||||Long||Erect||"All [BRC] recognised colour[s] and pattern[s]"||||||

|Lionhead [US]||140px||||Long||Erect||Chocolate, Ruby-Eyed White, Seal, Siamese Sable, Tortoise (includes Black, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac)||||||

|Liptov Baldspotted Rabbit   Also called:     Liptovský lysko||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||Agouti, Blue-Agouti, or Black||||||

|Lynx   Also called:     Luchskaninchen     Lux||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"Lux has a wild factor and the outermost part of the hair is light grey. Under this color, the middle color is reddish-brown. The middle color is so high that it shines through the entire color. The entire color therefore appears as a reddish-brown tone 'coated' with a light grey-blue cut."||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Marburger Feh [UK]   Originally named:     Fee de Marbourg   Renamed:     Feh de Marbourg [FR]   Also called:     Mecklenburger Schecke||140px||||Medium||Erect||"[Broken pattern: mostly solid color with neck, chest, belly, legs. Includes Agouti, Black, Blue, Red, Steel]"||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Meissner Lop||140px||||Short||Lop||[Many]||||||

|Mellerud rabbit||140px||||Short||Erect||Albino, Black with inexact "Dutch" markings||||||

|Mini Cashmere Lop   See main entry:     Miniature Cashmere Lop||||||||||||||||

|Mini Lion Lop   See main entry:     Miniature Lion Lop||||||||||||||||

|Mini Lop [US]   Not to be confused with:     Miniature Lop [UK/NL]||140px||||Short||Lop||[To be supplied]||||||

|Mini Rex   See also:     Rex [US]||140px||||Rex  Straight   Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Castor, Chinchilla, Chocolate, Himalayan, Lilac, Lynx, Marten, Opal, Otter, Red, Sable, Sable Point, Seal, Tortoise, Red-Eyed White, Blue-Eyed White, Broken (white with any accepted color), Tri-Color (white with one of the following four pairs: Black & Orange, Lilac & Fawn, Chocolate & Orange, Blue & Fawn), Pattern||||||

|Mini Satin [US]   Not to be confused with:     Miniature Satin [UK]||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Broken, Chinchilla, Chocolate, Chocolate Agouti, Copper, Himalayan (includes Black, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac), Opal, Red, Siamese (includes Blue, Chocolate, Lilac), Silver Marten (includes Black, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac), Squirrel, Tortoise, White||||||

|Miniature Cashmere Lop   See also:     Cashmere Lop||140px||||Long||Lop||[same as Cashmere Lop]||||||

|Miniature Lion Lop||140px||||Long||Lop||Chocolate Point Also: "Any [BRC] colour or pattern [...] apart from the broken pattern."||||||

|Miniature Lop [UK/NL]   Not to be confused with:     Mini Lop [US]   See also:     Holland Lop [US]||140px||||Short||Lop||"Any [BRC] colour or pattern [...] apart from the broken pattern."||||||

|Miniature Papillon   Also called:     Dværgschecke [da]   See also:     Giant Papillon [UK]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||Black/White, Blue/White, Tri-colour (Black & Gold) [Colored butterfly, eye circles, cheek spots, ear base, saddle, side-body patches, and top of tail; all on a base of white]||||||

|Miniature Satin [UK]   Not to be confused with:     Mini Satin [US]||140px||||Short||Erect||Ivory||||||

|Moshtohor||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||" A strong and warm yellow-red outer color."||||||

|   Also called:     Rex du Poitou||style=text-align:center|Image||||Rex  Straight   Short||Erect||[Many]||||||

|Ørestad||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||Ruby-Eyed White||||||

|Palomino||140px||||Short||Erect||Golden, Lynx||||||

|Pannon White||style=text-align:center|Image

||||Short||Erect||White||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Perlfee||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"Blue Agouti"||||||

|Plush Lop (Miniature)   See also:     Rex [US]||140px||||Rex  Straight   Short||Lop||"Any colour and pattern accepted by the [BRC] apart from the broken pattern."||||||

|Plush Lop (Standard)   See also:     Rex [US]||style=text-align:center|Image||||Rex  Straight   Short||Lop||"Any colour and pattern accepted by the [BRC] apart from the broken pattern."||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Pointed Beveren   See also:     Beveren||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Brown, Lilac||||||

|Polish [UK]   See also:     Britannia Petite [US]||140px||||Short||Erect||[Includes >25 different colors/patterns]||||||

|Polish [US]||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Blue-Eyed White, Broken, Chocolate, Red-Eyed White||||||

|Rex [US]   Originally called:     Castorrex   Sometimes called:     Standard Rex   NOTE: To see all breeds with rex fur,   sort on the "Fur Type" column.||140px||||Rex  Straight   Short||Erect||[Over 19 stated colors/patterns]||||||

|Rex du Poitou   See main entry:     Orylag||||||||||||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Rhinelander   See also:     Rhinsk Schecke [da]||140px||||Short||Erect||White with coloured butterfly patterns||||||

|   Also called:     Rhön||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"A white/black rabbit whose color/pattern is intended to resemble the surface of a birch tree."||||||

|Russian   See main entry:     Himalayan||||||||||||||||

|SA Phendula||140px||||Short||Erect||Chestnut Agouti, Gold or Silver Tipped Steel, Black||||||

|   Also called:     Saxon Gold||140px||||Short||Erect||Chestnut||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|||140px||||Short||Erect||—||||||

|San Juan||style=text-align:center|Image

||||Short||Erect||Agouti||||||

|Satin [UK]   See also:     Miniature Satin [UK]||140px||||Medium||Erect||[Includes >33 different colors/patterns]||||||

|Satin [US]   See also:     Mini Satin [US]||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Broken, Californian, Chinchilla, Chocolate, Copper, Lilac(under development), Otter, Red, Siamese, White||||||

|Satin Angora||140px||||Long||Erect||[White or Colored]||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"[P]ure white [with] black ticking"||||||

|Separator [DE]   See also:     Beige [UK]     Czech Solver [CZ]||140px||||Short||Erect||[sandy colored]||||||

|Siamese Sable||140px||||Short||Erect||Light Siamese Sable, Medium Siamese Sable, Dark Siamese Sable||||||

|Siberian||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Brown, Lilac||||||

|Silver [UK]   See also:     Giant Silver||thumb|170x170px||||Short||Erect||Blue, Brown, Fawn, Grey||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Silver [US]   See also:     Giant Silver||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Brown, Fawn||||||

|Silver Fox [UK]   See main entry:     Fox–Silver [UK]||||||||||||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Silver Fox [US]||140px||||Long||Erect||Black, Blue(under development), Chocolate(under development)||||||

|Silver Marten   Also called:     Beloresavec [sl]     Weißgrannen [de]   See also:     Big Silver Marten||140px||||Short||Erect||Black, Blue, Chocolate, Sable||||||

|Simenwar||style=text-align:center|70px||||||||||||||

|Slovenian Rabbit     Zobel blue [da]   See also:     Giant Smoke Pearl||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||Marten type ["smoke in colour, shading to pearl grey beige" with certain white touches, including eye circles] or Siamese type [same but with no white touches]||||||

|Spanish Giant||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||—||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Squirrel||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||—||||||

|Standard Chinchilla [US]   See also:     Chinchilla||140px||||Short||Erect||Chinchilla||||||

|Standard Rex   See main entry:     Rex [US]||||||||||||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Stone rabbit   Also called:     Steenkonijn [nl]||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||Haaskleur ("hare" = red agouti), Konijngrijs ("rabbit grey" = grey agouti), Ijzergrauw ("iron grey" = steel agouti)||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Sussex||style=text-align:center|Image

||||Short||Erect||[Shaded] Cream, [Shaded] Gold||||||

|Swedish Fur   Also called:     Svensk Pels||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"Glossy black with evenly spaced white hair."||||||

|Swedish Hare   Includes the breed prev. named:     Elfin||140px||||Short||Erect||All colors and markings are acceptable||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Swiss Fox||140px||||Long||Erect||—||||||

|Tadla||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||Agouti||||||

|Tan   Also called:     Feu Noir [FR]||140px||||Short||Erect||Black & Tan, Blue & Tan, Chocolate & Tan, Lilac & Tan||||||

|Tax-Xiber

|Malta

|Teddy Dwarf   Also called:     Teddyzwerg [DE]||140px||||Long||Erect||[Many]||||||

|Teddy Lop   Also called:     Teddywidder [DE]||140px||||Long||Lop||[Many]||||||

|Thrianta||140px||||Short||Erect||Chestnut||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Thuringer   Also called:     Thüringer||140px||||Short||Erect||[Sable with dark points]||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Tri-Colour Dutch   Also called:     Harlequin Dutch     Japanese Dutch||140px||||Short||Erect||[Tri-Colour Dutch markings]||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Tri-Colour English||140px||||Short||Erect||[Tri-Colour English markings]||||||

|-style="background:"#FFE6E6"

|Trønder||style=text-align:center|Image ||||Short||Erect||"The color is shiny black with evenly distributed white hair. The white hairs are white in their full length"||||||

|V-line||||||||||||

|Velveteen Lop   See also:     Rex [US]||style=text-align:center|Image||||Rex  Straight   Short||Lop||[Includes "all patterns and colors of the English Lop breed"]     Hvit Land [no]     Vit Lant [se]||||||Short||Erect||Albino||||||

|Zemmouri||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||[Black with "Dutch" markings]||||||

|Zika||style=text-align:center|Image||||Short||Erect||Albino||||||

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Scope

The table of modern-day rabbit breeds includes those that are:

recognized as a distinct breed by ARBA, the BRC, or another country's established organization for the national promotion of rabbit breeds,
recognized as "in development" for potential formal recognition (as judged by multiple authoritative sources), or
recognized as a distinct breed that resulted from natural selection (as judged by pertinent authoritative sources).

Terminology

Confusion sometimes arises regarding the name of a rabbit breed versus the name of a rabbit's color/pattern (or fur type). For example, Harlequin is the name of a breed whose color/pattern is known as harlequin. (This arose from the traditional Harlequin character, who, like this rabbit, always wears a motley-colored check-patterned coat and is also native to France.) The harlequin color/pattern is found now in a different breed of rabbit: the Tri-Colour Dutch, also known as the Harlequin Dutch. Such evolutions in terminology pertain also to some fur types, where (for example) the Rex breed has rex fur. There are now other rabbit breeds that also have rex fur. For example, the unusually "rexed" Astrex rabbit breed.

It is sometimes difficult to ascertain which came first, the breed name or the color/pattern name (or fur-type name). What is certain is that, in such situations, the two at some point were synonymous but subsequent developments in other breeds (likely hinging on similar genetic changes) have caused the terms to diverge.

The definition of a distinct breed relies on clusters of complex individual gene-sets—clusters that may include the gene-set for a body type, the gene-set for an ear type, the gene-set for a color/pattern, and/or the gene-set for a fur type. The determination of when a group of rabbits is considered to have become a new breed (as a result of overarching genetic distinction) is left, in the following table, to the authority of ARBA, the BRC, or other reputable source.

Extinct rabbit breeds

Many rabbit breeds that are now extinct contributed to the development of a modern-day breed or breeds. An example of this was the Blue Imperial which contributed to the American and Lilac. Many rabbit breeds went extinct following the collapse of the American fur industry, though some breeds mainly raised for fur were preserved. In some cases, little is known of these nearly forgotten breeds. For some, the only records are descriptions in old breed books. At least sixty rabbit breeds have gone extinct.

{|class="wikitable sortable"

!Breed name

!class="unsortable"|Image

!Size

!Fur type

!Ear type

!Colors & markings

!Origin

!Ancestor of the modern

|Beaver||—||—||—||—||Silky & luxurious coat||—||—

|Blanc de Chauny||—||—||—||—||Snow white||—||—

|Blanc de L'Oural||—||||—||—||Albino|| ||—

|Blue Imperial

|7 lbs

|Normal

|Erect

|Self-Blue

|England

|American, Lilac

|Golden Fawn||—||—||—||—||—||—||New Zealand red

|Old English Red||—||—||—||—||—|| ||—

|Patagonian||—||—||—||—||—||||Flemish Giant

|Petite Brabancon||—||—||—||—||—|| ||Dutch

|Rouennais||—||||Short||Erect||—|| ||French Lop

|Sitka||—||—||Long||—||—|| ||—

|Swan||—||||—||—||Brown, Grey|| ||—

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References

External links

American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) (Includes links to national rabbit breed clubs in the US)
British Rabbit Council (BRC) (Includes links to national rabbit breed clubs in the UK)
Online Rabbit Care—Rabbit Breeds (Lists over 150 rabbit varieties)
RabbitPedia.com—Rabbit Breeds (Information about 60+ Pet Rabbit Breeds from A to Z)
Petadvices.com—Domestic Rabbit Breeds (Information about Domestic Rabbit Animal Breeds)
Complete Guide of Rabbit Breeds - List of rabbit breeds approved by American Rabbit Breeders Association
RabbitBreeders.us—Rabbit Breeds (Includes body-type and fur-type classifications for over 45 ARBA-recognized rabbit breeds)
Raising-Rabbits—Rabbit Breeds (Lists over 170—and provides information on over 50—"global domestic" rabbit breeds)

Modern-day rabbit breeds

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Extinct rabbit breeds

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