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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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