Mesocricetus Nehring, 1898

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 : 538

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scientific name	Mesocricetus Nehring, 1898
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Mesocricetus Nehring, 1898 . Zool. Anz., 21:49.

TYPE SPECIES: Cricetus nigricans Brandt, 1832 (= Cricetus raddei Nehring, 1894 ).

SYNONYMS: Mediocricetus, Semicricetus .

COMMENTS: Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) recognized only one extant species in the genus, but current checklists recognize at least three ( Corbet, 1978c; Corbet and Hill, 1991). Pieper (1984) described M. rathgeberi based on Holocene fossils from the Greek island of Armathia (off coast of Kasos Isl between Kriti and Rodhos).