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SPECIES Equus kiang

Author:Moorcroft, 1841.
Citation:Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, 1: 312.
Common Name:Kiang
Type Locality:"Ladak" (India, Kashmir).
Distribution:Ladak (India), Tibet, Tsinghai and Szechwan (China), adjacent Nepal and Sikkim (India).
Status:CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Data deficient as E. k. kiang and E. k. polyodon, Lower Risk (lc) as E. k. holdereri.
Comments: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.
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SUBSPECIES kiang

SUBSPECIES holdereri

SUBSPECIES polyodon

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