Ochotona cansus

Lyon, 1907

Gansu Pika

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Lagomorpha
Family : Ochotonidae
Genus : Ochotona
Subgenus : Ochotona

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Lyon, M.W., Jr. 1907-07-09. Notes on a small collection of mammals from the Province of Kan-su, China. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 50(4):133-138.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30049022

Original name as described

Ochotona cansus

Other common names

Gray Pika

Type material

USNM:MAMM:144030

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/386a279cd-75d1-4033-87c6-7364a965a53e

Type locality

"Taocheo, Kan-su, China [= Xincheng]," Lintan County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, China.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China

Taxonomy notes

morosa has been recognized as a distinct species, but it not considered under O. cansus

Taxonomy notes citation

Lissovsky, A. A., Yatsentyuk, S. P., & Koju, N. P. (2019). Multilocus phylogeny and taxonomy of pikas of the subgenus Ochotona (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae). Zoologica Scripta, 48(1), 1-16. · Wang, X., Liang, D., Jin, W., Tang, M., Liu, S., & Zhang, P. (2020). Out of Tibet: Genomic Perspectives on the Evolutionary History of Extant Pikas. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(6), 1577-1592.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001151

Country distribution map

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