Cricetulus alticola Thomas, 1917

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 537

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scientific name	Cricetulus alticola Thomas, 1917
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Cricetulus alticola Thomas, 1917 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 19:455.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Ladak, Shushul, 13,500 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from W Nepal ( Lim and Ross, 1992), N India in Kashmir and Ladak, and western part of Tibetan Plateau in China.

COMMENTS: Feng et al. (1986) considered alticola to be a subspecies of C. kamensis , occuring in W Xizang Prov, but Corbet and Hill (1991) recognized it as a separate species.