Equus onager Boddaert, 1785
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Equus onager Boddaert, 1785 |
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Equus onager Boddaert, 1785 View in CoL . Elench. Anim., p. 160.
TYPE LOCALITY: NW Persia (= Iran), Kasbin, near Caspian .
DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Kazakhstan north to upper Irtysh and Ural Rs. ( Russia); westward north of the Caucasus and Black Sea at least to Dniestr River ( Ukraine); and SE of Caspian Sea, Anatolia, N Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to Thar Desert of NW India; survives as isolated populations in Rann of Kutch ( India), Badkhys Preserve, Turkmenia, and C Iran; also reestablished on Barsa-khelmes Isl (Aral Sea, Uzbekistan).
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I E. hemionus khur ; IUCN - Endangered as E. h. khur, Extinct as £. h. hemippus .
SYNONYMS: bahram, blanfordi, dzigguetai, hamar, hemippus , indicus , khur , kulan, syriacus.
COMMENTS: Revised by Groves and Mazak (1967), who with Groves (1986) and Schlawe (1986) included onager in hemionus , but Bennett (1980) considered onager a distinct species.
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