Key: Upright Ears - Normal fur - Marked in a pattern

If your rabbit matches one of these patterns, it's almost certainly one of these breeds::

Dutch Rabbit

• Dark-colored body

• White triangle on the face

• White "saddle" across the shoulders and front legs

Harlequin

• Markings that look like a medieval jester:

  • Face split down the middle

  • Alternating darker and lighter body stripes (colors go right around the rabbit's body) or bars (bars are offset on one side of the body and the other)

Hotot

White rabbit which looks like it's wearing mascara around its eyes.

Tan

• Rabbit has a slim body

• Back curves from the neck down to the tail (this is called "full arch")

• Body is a dark color with tan running from the bunny's chin down to the underside

If your rabbit matches one of these patterns, you'll need to dig a little further...

Some fur patterns define breeds of rabbit, but are also found as color patterns in other breeds. 
The next few patterns are like that - read the notes on each page carefully to see what other breeds might share the same coloration.

Spots

Does the rabbit have a white body with a "racing stripe" down the back, and a regular pattern of spots or clusters of spots on the sides? Note that the spots have to be regular - that is, the same pattern of spots on each side, not just a whole lot of various-sized and -shaped splotches of color (that's called "broken", and many breeds come in broken varieties).

That could be one of several breeds - for the next choice, click here to go to UPRIGHT / NORMAL / PATTERN / SPOTTED

Himalayan / Californian / Sable Point

Does the bunny have a body in a more-or-less solid color with a dark nose, and possibly other uniform dark areas like ears and feet?
 
That pattern appears in many different breeds - for the next choice, click here to go to UPRIGHT / NORMAL / PATTERN / HIMI

Otter or Marten

Does the bunny have dark fur with white on the belly, chest, underside of tail, insides of legs, feet, chin, nostrils, eye circles, inside of ears, and a silver triangle at the nape of the neck? There may be some silver hairs around the white areas.

This could be a Silver Marten - but the same color pattern, called "silver marten" or "otter", appears in other breeds. Click here to go to the Silver Marten page and also check out the "Otter or Marten Pattern" section on our FUR COLOR TABLE.