Order Lagomorpha
Author
James H. Honacki
Author
Kenneth E. Kinman
Author
James W. Koeppl
text
1982
Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Editor
James H. Honacki
Editor
Kenneth E. Kinman
Editor
James W. Koeppl
Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition)
595
604
book chapter
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Ochotona princeps
(Richardson, 1828)
.
Zool. J., 3:520
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Canada
,
Alberta
, near Athabasca Pass, head of Athabasca River
.
DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of W. North America from C.
British Columbia
(
Canada
) to N.
New Mexico
,
Utah
, C.
Nevada
, and E.C.
California
(
U.S.A.
).
COMMENT:
Broadbooks, 1965
, Am. Midi. Nat., 299-335, and
Youngman, 1975
, Mammals of the
Yukon
Terr., Nat. Mus. Nat. Sci. (Ottawa), Publ. Zool. 10, 192 pp., considered
princeps
and
collaris
conspecific. Corbet, 1978, following
Gureev, 1964
, included
princeps
in
alpina
.
A statistical re-evaluation of craniometric data by
Weston, 1981
,
in
Myers, Proc. World Lagomorph Conf., indicated that
princeps
,
collaris
,
and
alpina
are separate species. See also comments under
alpina
.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301409001001008001.