Family OCHOTONIDAE

(PIKAS)

• Small, tailless, hamsterlike, herbivorous lagomorphs with two pairs of incisors (one behind the other), large rounded ears, and soft fur.

° 10-25 cm.

• Holarctic Region.

• Semi-desert, steppe, meadows, and forest in mountains, from elevations as low as 100 m to alpine zones at 5700 m. •

• 1 genus, 29 species, 62 extant taxa.

• 1 species Critically Endangered, 3 species Endangered; none Extinct since 1600.