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Ochotona thomasi (Thomas's Pika; Thomas' pika)

Synonyms: Ochotona ciliana

Wikipedia Abstract

Thomas's pika (Ochotona thomasi) is a species of small mammal in the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is endemic to China, where it is found on isolated peaks of the eastern Qilian Mountains in Gansu, Qinghai, and northwest Sichuan. It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Ochotona thomasi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
30
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.93
EDGE Score: 2.7
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Diet [1]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [1]  100 %
Forages - Ground [1]  100 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve 37634150 Qinghai, China      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 2International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0