Lepus oiostolus Hodgson 1840

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Lepus oiostolus Hodgson 1840

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].

Vernacular Names: Woolly Hare.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Lepus oiostolus subsp. oiostolus Hodgson 1840

Subspecies Lepus oiostolus subsp. hypsibius Blanford 1875

Subspecies Lepus oiostolus subsp. pallipes Hodgson 1842

Subspecies Lepus oiostolus subsp. przewalskii Satunin 1907

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

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Placed in subgenus Proeulagus by Gureev (1964) and Eulagos by Averianov (1998); przewalskii was assigned to capensis (= tolai ) by Corbet (1978 c), but is placed in oiostolus following Cai and Feng (1982).