Equus onager Boddaert 1785
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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.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353118 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1E3D8B6AFFFAFFB0854BFFB41E393448 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/E204F312FFFBFFB1845AFABE1C2A3319 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205133484 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193463/taxon/E204F312FFFBFFB1845AFABE1C2A3319.taxon (URL)
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.