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

description: <i>Ochotona thibetana</i> (Milne-Edwards, 1871). Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull., 7:93. TYPE LOCALITY: "mountain near Moupin" [Baoxing, Ya'an County, Sichuan, China.]. DISTRIBUTION: Shanxi, Shaanxi, W Hubei, Yunnan, Sichuan, S Tibet (China); N Burma; Sikkim (India); perhaps adjacent Bhutan and India. STATUS: <i>O. t. sikimaria</i> of Sikkim may be endangered by habitat destruction (A. T. Smith et al., 1990). Other forms do not appear to be threatened. SYNONYMS: <i>hodgsoni</i> Bonhote, 1905; <i>huangensis</i> Matschie, 1908; <i>nanggenica</i> Zheng et al., 1980; <i>osgoodi</i> Anthony, 1941; <i>sacrario</i> Thomas, 1923; <i>sikimaria</i> Thomas, 1922; <i>syrinx</i> Thomas, 1911; <i>xunhuaensis</i> Shou and Feng, 1984; <i>zappeyi</i> Thomas, 1922. COMMENTS: Formerly included <i>cansus, forresti,</i> and <i>nubrica;</i> see comments therein. The taxon <i>aliensis,</i> originally described as a subspecies of <i>thibetana,</i> is now considered a synonym of <i>nubrica</i> (Feng et al., 1986; A. T. Smith et al., 1990). <i>O. osgoodi,</i> described as a distinct species by Anthony (1941), was listed as a subspecies of <i>O. pusilla</i> by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), and subsequently allocated to <i>thibetana</i> by Corbet (1978c) and Weston (1982). The isolated subspecies <i>sikimaria</i> was assigned to <i>cansus</i> by Feng and Kao (1974) and Feng and Zheng (1985), but transferred to <i>thibetana</i> by A. T. Smith et al. (1990). Erbaeva (1988: 190-191) considered <i>cansus</i> and <i>sikimaria</i> subspecies of <i>thibetana,</i> as well as <i>lhasaensis,</i> here placed in <i>nubrica;</i> however, she thought <i>hodgsoni</i> was probably a distinct species (based on examination of a skull photograph).
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 812, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353088
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