Equus kiang Moorcroft, 1841

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 369-372 : 370

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Equus kiang Moorcroft, 1841 View in CoL . Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, 1:312.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kashmir, Ladak .

DISTRIBUTION: Ladak ( India), Tibet, Tsinghai and Szechwan ( China), adjacent Nepal and Sikkim ( India).

SYNONYMS: equioides, holdereri, nepalensis, polyodon, tafeli.

COMMENTS: Revised by Groves and Mazak (1967), who with Bennett (1980) separated kiang from hemionus ; but Schlawe (1986) regarded kiang as a subspecies of hemionus .