Otocolobus manul (Pallas, 1776) . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 3:692.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Frequens in rupestribus, apricis totius Tatariae Mongoliaeque desertae". Listed in Honacki et al. (1982) as " U.S. S. R., S.W. Transbaikalia, Buryat. Mongolsk. A.S.S. R.;S. of Lake Baikal, Kulusutai" .

DISTRIBUTION: Steppe and semidesert from Caspian Sea to Kashmir, Transbaikalia, Mongolia, and C China, north to Inner Mongolia and east to Hopei.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: ferrugineus Ognev, 1928; mongolicus Satunin, 1905; nigripectus Hodgson, 1842; satuni Lydekker, 1907.

COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1907), Birula (1913, 1916), Ognev (1935), and Schwangart (1936).