Order Perissodactyla
Author
Peter Grubb
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
369
372
book chapter
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Equus kiang
Moorcroft, 1841
.
Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, 1:312
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
India
, Kashmir, Ladak
.
DISTRIBUTION: Ladak (
India
),
Tibet
, Tsinghai and Szechwan (
China
), adjacent
Nepal
and
Sikkim
(
India
).
SYNONYMS:
equioides, holdereri, nepalensis, polyodon, tafeli.
COMMENTS: Revised by
Groves and Mazak (1967)
, who with
Bennett (1980)
separated
kiang
from
hemionus
;
but
Schlawe (1986)
regarded
kiang
as a subspecies of
hemionus
.