Ochotona roylei (Ogilby, 1839)

Robert S. Hoffmann, 1993, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 807-827 : 812

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scientific name	Ochotona roylei (Ogilby, 1839)
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Ochotona roylei (Ogilby, 1839) View in CoL . Royle's Ulus. Botany...Himalaya, vol. 2, 69, pl. 4 [erroneusly labeled "Lagomys alpinus"].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Choor Mountain, Lat. 30. Elev. ll,500[ft], [60 mi. (96 km) N of Saharanpur], Punjab, India .

DISTRIBUTION: Himalayan Mtns in NW Pakistan and India to Nepal; adjacent Tibet ( China).

STATUS: Currently not under threat.

SYNONYMS: angdawai Biswas and Khajuria, 1955; hodgsoni, Blyth, 1841 ; mitchelli Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1971; nepalensis Hodgson, 1841 ; wardi Bonhote, 1904 .

COMMENTS: Includes angdawai and mitchelli, but not forresti and himalayana , which are here provisionally considered distinct; see comments therein. O. hodgsoni is traditionally placed here, but based on the original description may be assigned to nubrica .