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Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus Lyon 1907

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Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus Lyon 1907

Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus Lyon 1907, Smithson. Misc. Coll., 50: 136.

Type Locality: "Taocheo, Kan-su, China " [Lintan, Gannan A.D., Gansu, China].

Vernacular Names: Gansu Pika.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus subsp. cansus Lyon 1907

Subspecies Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus subsp. morosa Thomas 1912

Subspecies Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus subsp. sorella Thomas 1908

Subspecies Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus subsp. stevensi Osgood 1932

Distribution: C China (Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan); isolated populations in Shaanxi and Shanxi.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc); but the Shanxi subspecies sorella, isolated in the extreme NW of the species range (Yunshung Shan) is IUCN – Endangered and the subspecies morosa is IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Subgenus Ochotona. Büchner (1890) originally included this species in the quite different O. roylei, but in recent years it has usually been assigned to O. thibetana (Allen, 1938; Argyropulo, 1948; Corbet, 1978 c; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Gureev, 1964; Honacki et al., 1982; Weston, 1982). Additional studies showed that cansus and thibetana are broadly sympatric, with distinct ecological niches, and morphological characters that do not intergrade (Feng and Kao, 1974; Feng and Zheng, 1985). The latter authors, without access to holotypes, assigned the race morosa to thibetana, but it is an isolated subspecies of cansus that is sympatric with O. thibetana in the Tsing Ling Shan, Shaanxi Province (A. T. Smith et al., 1990, and references therein). Recent phylogenetic analyses based on molecular sequencing also show that morosa is a synonym of O. cansus rather than O. thibetana, and that the two species are independent (Yu et al., 1997; Yu et al., 2000). May also include annectens Miller, 1911, which is usually considered a subspecies of O. dauurica; but Yu et al. (2000) treat annectens as an independent sister species of O. cansus; see comments under that species. Until more data become available, we prefer to leave annectens as a subspecies of dauurica (Pavlinov et al., 1995 b).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 185-211 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 186, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lyon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Lagomorpha
Family
Ochotonidae
Genus
Ochotona
Species
cansus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus Lyon, 1907 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

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  • Feng Zuo-jiang, and Zheng Chang-lin. 1985. [Studies on the pikas (genus Ochotona) of China- - taxonomic notes and distribution]. Acta Theriologica Sinica, 5: 269 - 290 (in Chinese).
  • Yu, N., C. - L. Zheng, and L. Shi. 1997. Mitochondrial DNA variation and phylogeny of six species of pika (genus Ochotona). Journal of Mammalogy, 78: 387 - 396.
  • Pavlinov, I. Ya, A. V. Borisenko, S. V. Kruskop, and E. L. Yakhontov. 1995 b. Mlekopitayushchie Evrazii [Mammals of Eurasia]. II. Non-Rodentia. Moscow University, Moscow, 336 pp.