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Ochotona princeps  (Richardson, 1828)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180109

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): American Pika [English]
  
    Cony [English]
  
    Rock Rabbit [English]
  
    Hay-maker [English]
  
    Mouse Hare [English]
  
    Piping Hare [English]
  
    Whistling Hare [English]
  
    Little Chief Hare [English]
  
    Southern Pika [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderLagomorpha Brandt, 1855 – coelho, tapeti, lagomorphs, Rabbits, Hares, Pikas  
                                  FamilyOchotonidae Thomas, 1897 – Pikas  
                                     GenusOchotona Link, 1795 – Pikas  
                                        SubgenusOchotona (Pika) Lacépède, 1799  
                                           SpeciesOchotona princeps (Richardson, 1828) – American Pika, Cony, Rock Rabbit, Hay-maker, Mouse Hare, Piping Hare, Whistling Hare, Little Chief Hare, Southern Pika  
    Direct Children:  
                                              Subspecies Ochotona princeps fenisex Osgood, 1863  
                                              Subspecies Ochotona princeps princeps (Richardson, 1828)  
                                              Subspecies Ochotona princeps saxatilis Bangs, 1899  
                                              Subspecies Ochotona princeps schisticeps (Merriam, 1889)  
                                              Subspecies Ochotona princeps uinta Hollister, 1912  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alfred L. Gardner  
  Notes: Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps    
       
  Expert: Robert S. Hoffman  
  Notes: Assistant Secretary for the Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560   
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner  
  Publication Date: 1987   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Resource Publication, no. 166   
  Page(s): 79   
  Publisher: United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Hafner, David J., and Andrew T. Smith  
  Publication Date: 2010   
  Article/Chapter Title: Revision of the subspecies of the American pika, Ochotona princeps (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 91, no. 2   
  Page(s): 401-417   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0022-2372   
  Notes: doi: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-277.1   
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Smith, Andrew T., Charlotte H. Johnston, Paulo C.  
  Publication Date: 2018   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Lagomorphs. Pikas, Rabbits, and Hares of the World   
  Page(s): 266   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1421423405   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps, American Pika [English], Cony [English], Hay-maker [English], Little Chief Hare [English], Mouse Hare [English], Piping Hare [English], Rock Rabbit [English], Southern Pika [English], Whistling Hare [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps, American Pika [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps, American Pika [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals   
  Page(s): xxv + 750   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-845-2   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Ochotona princeps, American Pika [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: North America  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Continental US, Native  
    Canada, Native  
 

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: IUCN - Lower Risk (lc); isolated subspecies in the Great Basin: IUCN - Vulnerable (goldmani, lasalensis, nevadensis, nigrescens, obscura, sheltoni, tutelata; A. T. Smith et al., 1990)  
    Comments: Subgenus Pika. Broadbooks (1965) and Youngman (1975) considered princeps and collaris conspecific. Corbet (1978c), following Gureev (1964), included princeps in alpina. A statistical reevaluation of craniometric data by Weston (1981) indicated that princeps, collaris, and alpina are separate species. Hafner and Sullivan (1995) analyzed allozymic variation from 56 populations of princeps, with collaris as outgroup (see above). All but eight of the populations were placed in one of five regio...  
 

 

    

 
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