Equus kiang Moorcroft, 1841

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 308-311 : 309

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

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kashmir, Ladakh .

DISTRIBUTION: Populations exist in dry, intermontane basins of Ladakh ( India); Tibet, Tsinghai, Szechwan ( China) and adjacent Nepal and Sikkim.

COMMENT: Groves and Mazak, 1967, Z. Saugetierk., 32:321-355; Corbet, 1978:195; and Bennett, 1980, Syst. Zool., 29:272-287, recommended separating kiang from hemionus .