Turkmenian kulan
Not to be confused with the related khulan or Mongolian wild ass.
| Turkmenian kulan | |
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| A Turkmenian kulan at Korkeasaari Zoo. | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Equidae |
| Genus: | Equus |
| Species: | E. hemionus |
| Subspecies: | E. h. kulan |
| Trinomial name | |
| Equus hemionus kulan Groves and Mazák, 1967 | |
The Turkmenian kulan (Equus hemionus kulan), also called simply the kulan, is a subspecies of onager (Asian wild ass) native to Turkmenistan. It was declared endangered in 2008.[1]
Since 2005, the population was estimated at 1,295-1,345 in Turkmenistan. The species's population had recently been in decline in the country while it slowly increases in reintroduction sites. The Turkmenian kulan has been reintroduced to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, where the onagers formerly existed, also in Israel, where the subspecies are making hybrids with Persian onagers in the wild.
Related subspecies
- Mongolian wild ass (khulan), Equus hemionus hemionus
- Persian onager (gur), Equus hemionus onager
- Indian wild ass (khur), Equus hemionus khur
- Syrian wild ass or hemippe, Equus hemionus hemippus (extinct)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Equus hemionus". IUCNredlist.org.
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