Cricetulus longicaudatus Milne-Edwards 1867

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1042

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Cricetulus longicaudatus Milne-Edwards 1867 , Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammiferes: 13.

Type Locality: China, N Shanxi (Shansi), near Saratsi.

Vernacular Names: Long-tailed Dwarf Hamster.

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

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).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: G. M. Allen (1940) listed dichrootis as a synonym of C. barabensis , but Corbet (1978 c) included it in C. longicaudatus . Revised by Wang and Zheng (1973).