Equus hemionus Pallas, 1775

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 369-372 : 370

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Equus hemionus Pallas, 1775 View in CoL . Nova Comm. Imp. Acad. Sci. Petrop., 19:394.

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

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly much of Mongolia, north to Transbaikalia ( Russia); east to NE Inner Mongolia ( China) and possibly W Manchuria ( China); and west to Dzhungarian Gate. Survives in SW and SC Mongolia and adjacent China; see Sokolov and Orlov (1980:248).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as E. h. hemionus , otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: bedfordi, castaneus, finschi, luteus.

COMMENTS: Revised by Groves and Mazak (1967) and Schlawe (1986).