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--> GENUS Phodopus
SPECIES Phodopus roborovskii
Author: | Satunin, 1903. | Citation: | Ann. Zool. Mus. St. Petersbourg, 7: 571. | Common Name: | Roborovski’s Desert Hamster | Type Locality: | China, Nan Shan Mtns, upper part of Shargol Dzhin River. | Distribution: | Tuva (Russia) and E Kazakhstan; W and S Mongolia; adjacent regions of China from NW Xinjiang east through N Gansu, N Qinghai, Ningxia, N Shaanxi, N Shanxi, and Nei Mongolia to Liaoning and Jilin (Ma et al., 1987; Qin, 1991; Wang, 2003; Zhang et al., 1997). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | The status of przewalskii is discussed by Corbet (1978c) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). G. M. Allen (1940) treated bedfordiae as a separate species, but most have included it in P. roborovskii (Corbet, 1978c; Ellerman, 1941; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Pavlinov et al., 1995a). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
bedfordiae (Thomas, 1908) praedilectus Mori, 1930 przewalskii Vorontsov and Kriukova, 1969
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