Ochotona dauurica

(Pallas, 1776)

Daurian 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

Pallas, P.S. 1776. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Volume 3. Kayserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften, Saint Petersburg, 760pp.

Original name as described

Lepus dauuricus

Other common names

Eastern Daurian Pika · Uvs Nuur Daurian Pika

Type locality

"per totam Dauuriam" (= the whole Dauria), southern part of Zabaikalskiy Territory, Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia · Mongolia · China

Taxonomy notes

includes huangensis

Taxonomy notes citation

Lissovsky, A.A. 2014. Taxonomic revision of pikas Ochotona (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) at the species level. Mammalia 78(2): 199–216.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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