Ochotona curzoniae (Hodgson, 1858). J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 26:207. TYPE LOCALITY: China, Tibet, Chumbi Valley. DISTRIBUTION: Tibetan Plateau; adjacent Kansu, Tsinghai, Szechwan (China), Sikkim and E. Nepal. Perhaps Iran. COMMENT: Includes melanostoma and may include seiana from Iran; see Corbet, 1978:69. Treated as a subspecies of daurica by Mitchell, 1978, Saugetierk. Mitt., 26:211, but it is now considered a distinct species (ATS, MLW, RMM).

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 595-604 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 595, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353003

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