Mesocricetus brandti Nehring 1898
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Mesocricetus brandti Nehring 1898
Mesocricetus brandti Nehring 1898, Zool. Anz., 21: 331.
Type Locality: Georgia, near Tbilisi.
Vernacular Names: Brandt's Hamster.
Synonyms: Mesocricetus koenigi Nehring 1898.
Distribution: Anatolian Turkey and Black Sea Mtns in N Turkey, east into the Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan; Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995), and south to NW Iran (Lay, 1967), N Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and N Israel (Qumsiyeh, 1996, as auratus).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Corbet (1978 c) reservedly included brandti in M. auratus, following the traditional view (Ellerman, 1941; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). Hamer and Schutowa (1965) earlier established the specific integrity of M. brandti and Lyman and O’Brien (1977) exhaustively revised the species; additional chromosomal data provided by Fang and Jagiello (1992). Population and range in C Anatolian Turkey documented by Spitzenberger (1972) and summarized by Kryštufek and Vohralík (2001). Yiğit et al. (2000 b) broadly inventoried M. brandti in Turkey and contrasted its morphology and karyotype with those of M. auratus in SE Turkey (see above account).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Nehring
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Mesocricetus
- Species
- brandti
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesocricetus brandti Nehring, 1898 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Gromov, I. M., and M. A. Erbajeva. 1995. [The mammals of Russia and adjacent territories. Lagomorphs and Rodents.] Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institut, St. Petersburg, 520 pp.
- Lay, D. M. 1967. A study of the mammals of Iran resulting from the Street expedition of 1962 - 63. Fieldiana: Zoology, 54: 1 - 282.
- Qumsiyeh, M. B. 1996. Mammals of the Holy Land. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, 389 pp.
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 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., 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.
- Hamer, M., and M. Schutowa. 1965. Neue daten uber die geographische veranderlichkeit und die entwicklung der gattung Mesocricetus Nehring 1898 (Glires, Mammalia). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 31: 237 - 251.
- Fang, J. - S., and G. M. Jagiello. 1992. The unique G-banded mitotic karyotype of the Turkish hamster (Mesocricetus brandti). Cytologia, 57: 121 - 126.
- Spitzenberger, F. 1972. Der hamster Mesocricetus brandti (Nehring, 1898) in Zentralanatolien. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 37: 229 - 231.