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
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40262867Original name as described
Lagomys curzoniae
Other common names
Black-lipped Pika
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1858.6.24.99
Type kind
lectotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/4d60c994-add4-4b04-a539-f5130f9d42a9Type 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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