Equus hemionus Pallas, 1775

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 308-311 : 309

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Equus hemionus Pallas, 1775 View in CoL . Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petrop., 19: 397.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Transbaikalia, S. Chitinsk. Obi., Tarei-Nor, 50° N, 115° E GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly much of Mongolia, north to Transbaikalia ( U.S. S. R.); east to N.E. Inner Mongolia ( China) and possibly W. Manchuria ( China); west to Dzhungarian Gate. Survives in S.W. and S. C. Mongolia and adjacent China; see Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:248.

COMMENT: Includes luteus (E)KB). Groves and Mazak, 1967, Z. Saugetierk., 32:321-355, Corbet, 1978:194, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:335, included onager in this species, but Bennett, 1980, Syst. Zool., 29:272-287, considered it a distinct species. See Sokolov and Orlov, 1980: 248 for discussion of Mongolian and Chinese stocks.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II and U.S. ESA - Endangered as E. hemionus . CITES - Appendix I as E. h. hemionus subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301418001001005001.