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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
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--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Cricetinae
GENUS Tscherskia
| Author: | Ognev, 1914. | | Citation: | Moskva Dnev. Zool. otd. obsc. liub. jest., 2: 102. | | Type Species: | Tscherskia albipes Ognev, 1914 (= Cricetulus triton de Winton, 1899). | | Comments: | Although many have included Tscherskia in Cricetulus (G. M. Allen, 1940; Corbet, 1978c; Corbet and Hill, 1992; Ellerman, 1941; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Zhang et al., 1997), its distinctive morphology suggests distant relationship to the dwarf hamsters and generic segregation (Carleton and Musser, 1984; Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Pavlinov et al., 1995a). Oldest records date to Late Pliocene of Europe (McKenna and Bell, 1997). |
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| Offspring: SPECIES triton | Synonyms:
Asiocricetus Kishida, 1929
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