Equus kiang Moorcroft 1841

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

Type Locality: "Ladak" (India, Kashmir).

Vernacular Names: Kiang.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Equus kiang subsp. kiang Moorcroft 1841

Subspecies Equus kiang subsp. holdereri Matschie 1911

Subspecies Equus kiang subsp. polyodon Hodgson 1847

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

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Data deficient as E. k. kiang and E. k. polyodon, Lower Risk (lc) as E. k. holdereri.

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