Equus onager Boddaert, 1785 . Elench. Anim., p. 160.

TYPE LOCALITY: NW Persia (= Iran), Kasbin, near Caspian .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Kazakhstan north to upper Irtysh and Ural Rs. (Russia); westward north of the Caucasus and Black Sea at least to Dniestr River (Ukraine); and SE of Caspian Sea, Anatolia, N Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to Thar Desert of NW India; survives as isolated populations in Rann of Kutch (India), Badkhys Preserve, Turkmenia, and C Iran; also reestablished on Barsa-khelmes Isl (Aral Sea, Uzbekistan).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I E. hemionus khur; IUCN - Endangered as E. h. khur, Extinct as £. h. hemippus .

SYNONYMS: bahram, blanfordi, dzigguetai, hamar, hemippus, indicus, khur, kulan, syriacus.

COMMENTS: Revised by Groves and Mazak (1967), who with Groves (1986) and Schlawe (1986) included onager in hemionus, but Bennett (1980) considered onager a distinct species.