Equus kiang Moorcroft, 1841 . Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, 1:312.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kashmir, Ladak .

DISTRIBUTION: Ladak (India), Tibet, Tsinghai and Szechwan (China), adjacent Nepal and Sikkim (India).

SYNONYMS: equioides, holdereri, nepalensis, polyodon, tafeli.

COMMENTS: Revised by Groves and Mazak (1967), who with Bennett (1980) separated kiang from hemionus; but Schlawe (1986) regarded kiang as a subspecies of hemionus .