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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Cricetinae
--> GENUS Allocricetulus
SPECIES Allocricetulus curtatus
| Author: | G. M. Allen, 1925. | | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 179: 3. | | Common Name: | Mongolian Hamster | | Type Locality: | China, W Nei Mongol, Iren Dabasu (= Ehrlien). | | Distribution: | Mongolian steppes north of the Altai and in adjacent China in NW Xinjiang, N Gansu, N Ningxia (Qin, 1991), Anhui (Liu et al., 1985), and Nei Mongol; see Zhang et al. (1997, mapped as C. eversmanni). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Although some systematists have treated curtatus as a subspecies of A. eversmanni (G. M. Allen, 1940; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Ma et al., 1987), most have continued to recognize it as a separate species (Corbet, 1978c; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987, 1998; Pavlinov et al., 1995a). A fresh perspective is required to validate its specific status. |
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