Ochotona thomasi Argyropulo, 1948 . Trudy Zool. Inst. Leningrad, 7:127.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Valley of Alyk-nor." Restricted by Formosov (in A. T. Smith et al., 1990) to Alang-nor Lake, NE Qinghai, China (35°35'N, 97°25'E); see also Corbet (1978c) .

DISTRIBUTION: NE Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan (China).

STATUS: IUCN - Indeterminate. Apparently rare and scattered in distribution.

SYNONYMS: ciliana Bannikov, 1940.

COMMENTS: Widely sympatric with the similar O. cansus .