Equus onager Boddaert, 1785
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Equus onager Boddaert, 1785 View in CoL . Elench. Anim., p. 60.
TYPE LOCALITY: N.W. Persia (= Iran), Kasbin, near Caspian .
DISTRIBUTION: Formerly much of Central Asian republics ( U.S. S.R.) north to upper Irtysh and Ural Rivers; westward north of the Caucasus and Black Sea at least to Dniestr River; and S.E. of Caspian Sea, Anatolia, N. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to Thar Desert of N.W. India; survives as isolated populations in Rann of Kutch ( India), Badkhys Preserve, Turkmenia ( U.S. S.R.); and central Iran; also reestablished on Barsa-khelmes Isl. (Aral Sea) ( U.S. S. R.).
COMMENT: Includes hemippus, khur, and kulan (DKB); most previous workers regarded onager as a synonym of hemionus , but Bennett, 1980, Syst. Zool., 29:272-287, considered it a distinct species; see comments under hemionus .
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as E. hemionus khur subspecies only.
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