Ochotona pusilla

(Pallas, 1769)

Steppe Pika

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pallas, P.S. 1769. Descriptio Leporis Pusilli. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 13:531-538.

Original name as described

Lepus pusillus

Other common names

Little Pika

Type locality

"in campis circa Volgam" (= in plains along Volga). Restricted by Chaworth-Musters in 1933 to "neighbourhood of Samara."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia · Kazakhstan

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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