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Equus onager Boddaert 1785

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Description

Equus onager Boddaert, 1785. Elench. Anim., p. 160.

TYPE LOCALITY: NW Persia (= Iran), Kasbin, near Caspian.

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Kazakhstan north to upper Irtysh and Ural Rs. (Russia); westward north of the Caucasus and Black Sea at least to Dniestr River (Ukraine); and SE of Caspian Sea, Anatolia, N Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to Thar Desert of NW India; survives as isolated populations in Rann of Kutch (India), Badkhys Preserve, Turkmenia, and C Iran; also reestablished on Barsa-khelmes Isl (Aral Sea, Uzbekistan).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I E. hemionus khur; IUCN - Endangered as E. h. khur, Extinct as £. h. hemippus.

SYNONYMS: bahram, blanfordi, dzigguetai, hamar, hemippus, indicus, khur, kulan, syriacus.

COMMENTS: Revised by Groves and Mazak (1967), who with Groves (1986) and Schlawe (1986) included onager in hemionus, but Bennett (1980) considered onager a distinct species.

Notes

Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Perissodactyla, pp. 369-372 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 370, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353118

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Boddaert
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perissodactyla
Family
Equidae
Genus
Equus
Species
onager
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Equus onager Boddaert, 1785 sec. Grubb, 1993

References

  • Groves, C. P., and V. Mazak. 1967. On some taxonomic problems of the Asiatic wild asses: With the description of a new subspecies (Perissodactyla, Equidae). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 32: 321 - 355.
  • Schlawe, L. 1986. Seltene Pfleglinge aus Dschungarei und Mongolei: Kulane, Equus hemionus hemionus Pallas, 1775. Zoologische Garten, Neue Folge, 56: 299 - 323.
  • Bennett, D. K. 1980. Stripes do not a zebra make, part 1: A cladistic analysis of Equus. Systematic Zoology, 29: 272 - 287.