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

description: <i>Ochotona princeps</i> (Richardson, 1828). Zool. J., 3:520. TYPE LOCALITY: "Rocky Mountains"; restricted by Preble (1908) to "near the sources of Elk (Athabasca) River," [Athabasca Pass, head of Athabasca River, Alberta, Canada]. DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of W North America from C British Columbia (Canada) to N New Mexico, Utah, C Nevada, and EC California (USA). STATUS: Most populations are not currently threatened, except for a few isolates in the Great Basin <i>(goldmani, obscura, nevadensis, tutelata); tutelata</i> may now be extinct (A. T. Smith et al., 1990). SYNONYMS: <i>albata</i> Grinnell, 1912; <i>barnesi,</i> Durrant and Lee, 1955; <i>brooksi</i> Howell, 1924; <i>brunnescens</i> Howell, 1919; <i>cinnamomea</i> Allen, 1905; <i>clamosa</i> Hall and Bowlus, 1938; <i>cuppes</i> Bangs, <i>1899; fenisex</i> Osgood, 1913; <i>figginsi</i> Allen, 1912; <i>fumosa</i> Howell, 1919; <i>fuscipes</i> Howell, 1919; <i>goldmani</i> Howell, 1924; <i>howelli</i> Borell, 1931; <i>incana</i> Howell, 1919; <i>jewetti</i> Howell, 1919; <i>lasalensis</i> Durrant and Lee, 1955; <i>lemhi</i> Howell, 1919; <i>levis</i> Hollister, 1912; <i>littoralis</i> Cowan, 1955; <i>lutescens</i> Howell, 1919; <i>minimus</i> Lord, 1863; <i>moorei</i> Gardner, 1950; <i>muiri</i> Grinnell and Storer, 1916; <i>nevadensis</i> Howell, 1919; <i>nigrescens</i> Bailey, 1913; <i>obscura</i> Long, 1965; <i>saturata</i> Cowan, 1955; <i>saxatilis</i> Bangs, 1899; <i>schisticeps</i> (Merriam, 1889); <i>septentrionalis</i> Cowan and Racey, 1947; <i>sheltoni</i> Grinnell, 1918; <i>taylori</i> Grinnell, 1912; <i>tutelata</i> Hall, 1934; <i>uinta</i> Hollister, 1912; <i>utahensis</i> Hall and Hayward, 1941; <i>ventorum</i> Howell, 1919; <i>wasatchensis</i> Durrant and Lee, 1955. COMMENTS: Broadbooks (1965) and Youngman (1975) considered <i>princeps</i> and <i>collaris</i> conspecific. Corbet (1978c), following Gureev (1964) included <i>princeps</i> in <i>alpina.</i> A statistical réévaluation of craniometric data by Weston (1981) indicated that <i>princeps, collaris,</i> and <i>alpina</i> are separate species. Reviewed by Smith and Weston (1990, Mammalian Species, 352).
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 811, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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