Ochotona cansus Lyon, 1907
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Ochotona cansus Lyon, 1907 View in CoL . Smithson. Mise. Coll., 50:136.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Taocheo, Kan-su, China " [Lintan, Gannan A.D., Gansu, China] .
DISTRIBUTION: C China (Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan); isolated populations in Shaanxi and Shanxi.
STATUS: The Shanxi subspecies sorella , isolated in the extreme northwest of the species range, may be extinct. It is known from only a few specimens, and has not been found in over 50 years.
SYNONYMS: morosa Thomas, 1912; sorella Thomas, 1908 ; stevensi Osgood, 1932.
COMMENTS: Büchner (1890) originally included this species in the quite different O. roylei , but in recent years it has usually been assigned to O. thibetana ( Allen, 1938; Argyropulo, 1948; Corbet, 1978c; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Gureev, 1964; Honacki et al., 1982; Weston, 1982). Recent studies showed that cansus and thibetana are broadly sympatric, with distinct ecological niches, and morphological characters that do not intergrade ( Feng and Kao, 1974; Feng and Zheng, 1985). The latter authors, without access to holotypes, assigned the race morosa to thibetana , but it is an isolated subspecies of cansus that is sympatric with O. thibetana in the Tsing Ling Shan, Shaanxi Province (A. T. Smith et al., 1990, and references therein).
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Ochotona cansus Lyon, 1907
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Ochotona cansus
Lyon 1907: 136 |