Ochotona

• Black-lipped Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) curzoniae

  

  This small pika lives in high grasslands and steppes of the Tibetan Plateau and has no obvious visible tail. Meadow populations are known to gather and store plants.

• Daurian Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) dauurica

  

  The Daurian Pika is a small herbivore with short legs and rounded ears. It digs burrows in steppe and semi-desert habitats and feeds on vegetation.

• Nubra Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) nubrica

  

  The Nubra pika lives at high elevations in the Himalayas. It has a gray back, a pale underside, and uses rocky alpine scrub.

• Sijin Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) sikimaria

  

  This small pika is recorded in the mountains of Sikkim. Its winter coat is brown, with mixed brown and grey underneath. Surveys in 2010–2014 sampled it in subalpine Rhododendron forest and farmland.

• Gansu Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) cansus

  The Gansu pika is a pika of the Chinese mountains. It grazes among alpine shrubs and meadows and resembles the Moupin pika.

• Tsing-ling Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) syrinx

  The Tsing-ling Pika lives in coniferous forests in China’s mountains. The adult male described by Thomas had a bluish-gray winter coat, white ear rims, and white upper surfaces of the hands and feet.

• Moupin Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) thibetana

  The Moupin pika is a small mammal of mountain forests, including bamboo forest. It has yellow-brown fur and rounded ears, and feeds on plants.

• Thomas' pika Ochotona (Ochotona) thomasi

  Thomas's pika inhabits high-elevation shrubland with rocky ground in China. Its skull is unusually flat for the genus, a shape thought to relate to using narrow rock crevices.

• Daurian Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) dauurica

  The Daurian Pika is a small herbivore with short legs and rounded ears. It digs burrows in steppe and semi-desert habitats and feeds on vegetation.

• Black-lipped Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) curzoniae

  This small pika lives in high grasslands and steppes of the Tibetan Plateau and has no obvious visible tail. Meadow populations are known to gather and store plants.

• Nubra Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) nubrica

  The Nubra pika lives at high elevations in the Himalayas. It has a gray back, a pale underside, and uses rocky alpine scrub.

• Sijin Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) sikimaria

  This small pika is recorded in the mountains of Sikkim. Its winter coat is brown, with mixed brown and grey underneath. Surveys in 2010–2014 sampled it in subalpine Rhododendron forest and farmland.