There are actually a lot of different types of hares and their specific scientific name would depend on which type of hare you are referring to.
Hares belong to the genus Lepus. They are then grouped to different subgenus. Here is a list of Hares and their scientific names:
Genus Lepus
- Subgenus Macrotolagus
- Antelope jackrabbit, Lepus alleni
- Subgenus Poecilolagus
- Snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus
- Subgenus Lepus
- Arctic hare, Lepus arcticus
- Alaskan hare, Lepus othus
- Mountain hare, Lepus timidus
- Subgenus Proeulagus
- Black-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus californicus
- White-sided jackrabbit, Lepus callotis
- Cape hare, Lepus capensis
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit, Lepus flavigularis
- Black jackrabbit, Lepus insularis
- Scrub hare, Lepus saxatilis
- Desert hare, Lepus tibetanus
- Tolai hare, Lepus tolai
- Subgenus Eulagos
- Broom hare, Lepus castroviejoi
- Yunnan hare, Lepus comus
- Korean hare, Lepus coreanus
- Corsican hare, Lepus corsicanus
- European hare, Lepus europaeus
- Granada hare, Lepus granatensis
- Manchurian hare, Lepus mandschuricus
- Woolly hare, Lepus oiOStolus
- Ethiopian highland hare, Lepus starcki
- White-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus townsendii
- Subgenus Sabanalagus
- Ethiopian hare, Lepus fagani
- African savanna hare, Lepus microtis
- Subgenus Indolagus
- Hainan hare, Lepus hainanus
- Indian hare, Lepus nigricollis
- Burmese hare, Lepus peguensis
- Subgenus Sinolagus
- Chinese hare, Lepus sinensis
- Subgenus Tarimolagus
- Yarkand hare, Lepus yarkandensis
- Subgenus incertae sedis
- Japanese hare, Lepus brachyurus
- Abyssinian hare, Lepus habessinicus
