Ochotona thibetana

(A. Milne-Edwards in A. David, 1871)

Moupin 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

David, A. 1871. Rapport adressé à MM. les professeurs-administrateurs du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle. Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle (1)7(Bulletin):75-100.

Original name as described

Lagomys thibetanus

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1870-33

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Moupin [= Baoxing]," Baoxing County, Ya'an, Sichuan, China.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China · Myanmar

Taxonomy notes

previously included scararia and sikimaria

Taxonomy notes citation

Dahal, N., Lissovsky, A.A., Solari, K., Hadly, E.A., Zhan, X., Ramakrishnan, U. 2017. Genetics, morphology and ecology reveal a cryptic pika lineage in the Sikkim Himalaya. Molecular Phylogenetics 106: 55-60. · Lissovsky, A.A., Yatsentyuk, S.P., Ge, D. 2016. Phylogeny and taxonomic reassessment of pikas Ochotona pallasii and O. argentata (Mammalia, Lagomorpha). Zootaxa 45(6): 583-594. · 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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