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Cricetulus alticola Thomas 1917

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Cricetulus alticola Thomas 1917

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

Type Locality: India, Ladak (Kashmir), Shushul, 13,500 ft (4115 m).

Vernacular Names: Ladak Dwarf Hamster.

Distribution: NE India in Jammu and Ladak (Agrawal, 2000), Nepal (Lim and Ross, 1992), and western part of Tibetan Plateau (Xizang) in China (Feng et al., 1986).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Conventionally recognized as a species (Corbet, 1978 c; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Ellerman, 1941, 1961; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov et al., 1995 a), but Feng et al. (1986) considered alticola to be a subspecies of C. kamensis that occurs in W Xizang Prov. (an allocation followed by Zhang et al., 1997, and Wang, 2003).

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Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1041, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Cricetulus
Species
alticola
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cricetulus alticola Thomas, 1917 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Agrawal, V. C. 2000. Taxonomic studies on Indian Muridae and Hystricidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 180, 186 pp.
  • Lim, B. K., and P. D. Ross. 1992. Taxonomic status of Alticola and new record of cricetulus from Nepal. Mammalia, 56: 300 - 302.
  • Feng Zuo-jiang, Cai Gui-quan, and Zheng Chang-lin. 1986. [The mammals of Xizang. The comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau]. Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 423 pp. (in Chinese).
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp.
  • Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
  • Ellerman, J. R. 1961. Rodentia. Volume 3, in The fauna of India including Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Mammalia. Second ed. Manager of Publications, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, vol. 3 (in 2 parts), 1: 1 - 482; 2: 483 - 884.
  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
  • Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp.
  • Pavlinov, I. Ya, E. L. Yakhontov, and A. K. Agadzhanyan. 1995 a. [Mammals of Eurasia. I. Rodentia. Taxonomic and geographic guide.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 32: 289 pp. (in Russian).
  • Zhang, Y., S. Jin, G. Quan, S. Li, Z. Ye, F. Wang, and M. Zhang. 1997. Distribution of mammalian species in China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 280 pp.
  • Wang, Y. 2003. A complete checklist of mammal species and subspecies in China. A taxonomic and geographic reference. China Forestry Publishing House, (Beijing), 394 pp.