Equus kiang Moorcroft 1841

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 629-636 : 632

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

Type Locality: "Ladak" ( India, Kashmir).

Vernacular Names: Kiang.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Equus kiang subsp. kiang Moorcroft 1841

Subspecies Equus kiang subsp. holdereri Matschie 1911

Subspecies Equus kiang subsp. polyodon Hodgson 1847

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

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Data deficient as E. k. kiang and E. k. polyodon, Lower Risk (lc) as E. k. holdereri.

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