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--> GENUS Cricetulus
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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| Offspring: | 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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