Endemic to China, it is found in high altitudes of northeastern Tibet, southwestern Qinghai, western Sichuan, and northwestern Yunnan.

Glover's pika was first described in 1922 by the British zoologist Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.

It has a 4.3 to 5.3 cm (1.7 to 2.1 in) long skull with its dorsal side being arch shaped due to the oblique backward sloping of the parietal bone.

[5] The nominate subspecies O. g. gloveri has a dark gray cheek and smoky yellow rostrum.

O. g. brookei has an orange russet tipped nose, and light gray spotted above the eyes.

It is found in high altitudes of northeastern Tibet, southwestern Qinghai, western Sichuan, and northwestern Yunnan.

[5] It is a rock-dwelling pika[6] which usually inhabits scree deposits and rocky clefts which is bordered by woodlands in most of its range.

This is because it is a widespread species, and it occurs in remote areas of China which are unlikely to be affected by human activities.

The current state of its population trend is unclear, as no natural historic or ecological investigation has been done on this species.