Order Lagomorpha
Author
Robert S. Hoffmann
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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827
book chapter
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Ochotona forresti
Thomas, 1923
.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 11:662
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
"N.W. flank [Li-kiang Range,
27°N
,
100°30'E
] 13,000’" (
Yunnan
,
China
]
.
DISTRIBUTION: NW
Yunnan
, SE
Tibet
(
China
); N
Burma
;
Assam
,
Sikkim
(
India
);
Bhutan
.
STATUS: Unknown.
SYNONYMS: Monotypic.
COMMENTS: Formerly included in
pusilla
(
Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951
)
,
roylei
(
Corbet, 1978c
)
, and
thibetana
(
Feng and Kao, 1974
;
Gureev, 1964
;
Weston, 1982
), but now considered distinct (A. T. Smith et al., 1990, and references therein).
O. forresti
is poorly known, but may prove to be an allospecies of
O.
roylei
;
it is thought to be geographically sympatric with
O. gloveri
and/or
O. thibetana
in
Yunnan
(
China
),
Burma
, and
Sikkim
(
India
).