Ochotona cansus Lyon, 1907

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 807

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scientific name

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Lagomorpha

Family

Ochotonidae

Genus

Ochotona

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Ochotona cansus Lyon, 1907

Robert S. Hoffmann 1993
1993
Loc

Ochotona cansus

Lyon 1907: 136
1907
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