Ochotona (Ochotona) huangensis Matschie 1908

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Ochotona (Ochotona) huangensis Matschie 1908

Ochotona (Ochotona) huangensis Matschie 1908 , Wiss. Ergebn. der Exped. Filchner nach China und Tibet 1903-05, Vol. 10, 1: 214.

Type Locality: Not specified; fixed by Allen (1938:544) as "...from the Tsingling [mountains] in the vicinity of Sianfu [Xian]." [ China].

Vernacular Names: Tsing-Ling Pika.

Synonyms: Ochotona (Ochotona) syrinx Thomas 1911 ; Ochotona (Ochotona) xunhuaensis Shou and Feng 1984 .

Distribution: In the mountains of C China, including Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan provinces.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered as O. thibetana huangensis .

Discussion: Subgenus Ochotona . Formerly considered a subspecies of thibetana ( Allen, 1938; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1955; Feng and Zheng, 1985; Smith et al., 1990). Yu and Zheng (1992 b) first suggested full species status for huangensis , based on differing morphology, and later ( Yu et al., 1997, 2000) supported this with molecular studies. O. huangensis appears to be broadly sympatric with O. thibetana , but largely allopatric in distribution with O. cansus and O. thomasi .