Ochotona legbona

Pan Xuan, Wang Xuming, & Liu Shaoying in Pan Xuan, Wang Xuming, R. W. Murphy, Peng Buqing, Zhang Zongyun, Liao Rui, Chen Shunde, & Liu Shaoying, 2025

Legbo Valley Pika

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Lagomorpha
Family : Ochotonidae
Subfamily : Ochotoninae
Genus : Ochotona
Subgenus : Conothoa

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Pan, X., Wang, X.-m., Murphy, R.W., Peng, B.-q., Zhang, Z.-y., Liao, R., Chen, S.-d. and Liu, S.-y. 2025-08. Two New Species of Ochotona (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) From Xizang, China. Ecology and Evolution 15(8):e71898.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71898

Original name as described

Ochotona legbona

Type material

SAF 240179

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Legbo valley, Cuona (Cona) county, 27.89872°N; 91.80032°E, 2970 m a.s.l."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Pan, X., Wang, X.-m., Murphy, R.W., Peng, B.-q., Zhang, Z.-y., Liao, R., Chen, S.-d. and Liu, S.-y. 2025-08. Two New Species of Ochotona (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) From Xizang, China. Ecology and Evolution 15(8):e71898.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Country distribution map

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