Ochotona curzoniae

(Hodgson, 1858)

Plateau 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

J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1857, 26:607

Original name as described

Lagomys curzoniae

Other common names

Black-lipped Pika

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1858.6.24.99

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"district of Chumbi," Yadong County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China · India · Nepal?

Taxonomy notes

includes seiana as a synonym, which was previously under O. rufescens based on type locality, but the type specimen clearly represents a geographically mislabeled curzoniae

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.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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