Ochotona collaris

• Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Lagomorpha; Ochotonidae; Ochotona; Ochotona collaris; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7200709; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387910E65E665FF6D593EFCB65670

Ochotona collaris (Nelson, 1893). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 8: 117. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Alaska, near head of Tanana River. DISTRIBUTION: W.C. Mackenzie, S. Yukon, N. W. British Columbia (Canada); S.E. Alaska (U.S.A.). COMMENT: Broadbooks, 1965, Am. Midi. Nat., 73:299-335, and Youngman, 1975, Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Nat. Sci. (Ottawa), Publ. Zool. 10, 192 pp, considered collaris and princeps conspecific. Corbet, 1978, following Gureev, 1964, included collaris in alpina. A statistical re-evaluation of craniometric data by Weston, 1981, in Myers, Proc. World Lagomorph Conf., indicated that collaris, princeps, and alpina are separate species. Hall, 1981:286, recognized collaris as a distinct species. ISIS NUMBER: 5301409001001002001. Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Lagomorpha, pp. 595-604 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 595, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353003