Ochotona cansus Lyon 1907
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Ochotonidae
Ochotona
Ochotona cansus

description: <i>Ochotona cansus</i> Lyon, 1907. Smithson. Mise. Coll., 50:136. TYPE LOCALITY: "Taocheo, Kan-su, China " [Lintan, Gannan A.D., Gansu, China]. DISTRIBUTION: C China (Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan); isolated populations in Shaanxi and Shanxi. STATUS: The Shanxi subspecies <i>sorella,</i> isolated in the extreme northwest of the species range, may be extinct. It is known from only a few specimens, and has not been found in over 50 years. SYNONYMS: <i>morosa</i> Thomas, 1912; <i>sorella</i> Thomas, 1908; <i>stevensi</i> Osgood, 1932. COMMENTS: Büchner (1890) originally included this species in the quite different O. <i>roylei</i> <i>,</i> but in recent years it has usually been assigned to <i>O. thibetana</i> (Allen, 1938; Argyropulo, 1948; Corbet, 1978c; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Gureev, 1964; Honacki et al., 1982; Weston, 1982). Recent studies showed that <i>cansus</i> and <i>thibetana</i> are broadly sympatric, with distinct ecological niches, and morphological characters that do not intergrade (Feng and Kao, 1974; Feng and Zheng, 1985). The latter authors, without access to holotypes, assigned the race <i>morosa</i> to <i>thibetana,</i> but it is an isolated subspecies of <i>cansus</i> that is sympatric with <i>O. thibetana</i> in the Tsing Ling Shan, Shaanxi Province (A. T. Smith et al., 1990, and references therein).
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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