Ochotona alpina
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Ochotonidae
Ochotona
Ochotona alpina

description: <i>Ochotona alpina</i> (Pallas, 1773). Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 2:701. TYPE LOCALITY: "in Alpinus, rupestribus Sibiriae". Restricted by Ognev (1940:23) to Kazakhstan, Altai Mtns, Vostocho-Kazakhstansk Obi., Tigiretskoe Range, vic. of Tigiretskoe [110 km NNW Ust-Kamenogorsk]. Not Tigiretskoe, ESE Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. DISTRIBUTION: Sayan and Altai Mtns; Khangai, Kentei and associated ranges; upper Amur drainage (NW Kazakhstan, S Russia, NW Mongolia); N Kansu-Ningsia border (China). STATUS: The small isolated population of O. <i>a. argentata</i> at the southern extreme of the species range is likely endangered, and other isolated montane populations in Mongolia may be threatened (A. T. Smith et al., 1990). SYNONYMS: <i>argentata</i> Howell, 1928; <i>ater</i> Eversmann, 1842; <i>changaica</i> Ognev, 1940; <i>cinereofusca</i> (Schrenk, 1858); <i>nitida</i> Hollister, 1912; <i>scoroduntovi</i> Skalon, 1935; <i>sushkini</i> Thomas, 1924. COMMENTS: Formerly included <i>hyperborea;</i> but see Ivanitskaya (1985) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Sokolov and Orlov (1980:79) considered <i>hyperborea</i> a distinct species with a distribution overlapping that of <i>alpina</i> in the Khangai and Kentei Mtns, Mongolia. Separate specific status was supported by differences in chromosome numbers (Vorontsov and Ivanitskaya, 1973). The race <i>sushkini</i> <i>,</i> formerly assigned to <i>O. pallosi,</i> is a subspecies of <i>alpina</i> (see A. T. Smith et al., 1990, and references therein). Does not include <i>collaris or princeps, see</i> Weston (1981).
description: Published as part of <i>Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 807-827 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 807, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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