Lepus oiostolus Hodgson, 1840

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 819

Lepus oiostolus Hodgson, 1840 . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 9:1186.

TYPE LOCALITY: " ...the snowy region of the Hemalaya, and perhaps also Tibet." Restricted by Kao and Feng (1964), to "Southern Tibet " [Xizang, China] .

DISTRIBUTION: Tibetan Plateau, from Ladak to Sikkim ( India) Nepal, and eastward through Xizang (Tibet) and Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan ( China).

STATUS: Probably secure, but may be affected by rodent control activity on Tibetan Plateau.

SYNONYMS: grahami Howell, 1928 ; hypsibius Blanford, 1875; illuteus Thomas, 1914; kozlovi Satunin, 1907 ; oemodias Gray, 1847; pallipes Hodgson, 1842 ; przewalskii Satunin, 1907; qinghaiensis Cai and Feng, 1982; qusongensis Cai and Feng, 1982; sechuenensis de Winton, 1899 ; tsaidamensis Hilzheimer, 1910.

COMMENTS: Placed in subgenus Proeulagus by Gureev (1964:196); przewalskii was assigned to capensis (= tolai ) by Corbet (1978c), but is placed here following Cai and Feng (1982); Angermann (in litt., 1992) agreed with Corbet.