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SPECIES Cricetulus longicaudatus

Author:Milne-Edwards, 1867.
Citation:Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammifères: 13.
Common Name:Long-tailed Dwarf Hamster
Type Locality:China, N Shanxi (Shansi), near Saratsi.
Distribution:Altai and Tuva regions of Russia and Kazakhstan (Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995), NW China (Xinjiang), Mongolia, and adjacent Chinese regions in Nei Mongol, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Henan, N Shanxi, Ningxia, N Sichuan, and N Xizang (Tibet); see Feng et al. (1986), Qin (1991), Corbet and Hill (1992), Wang (2003), and Zhang et al. (1997).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:G. M. Allen (1940) listed dichrootis as a synonym of C. barabensis, but Corbet (1978c) included it in C. longicaudatus. Revised by Wang and Zheng (1973).
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Synonyms:

    andersoni Thomas, 1908
    chiumalaiensis Wang and Cheng, 1973
    dichrootis Satunin, 1902
    griseiventris (Satunin, 1903)
    kozhantschikovi Vinogradov, 1927
    nigrescens G. M. Allen, 1925

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