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Cricetulus sokolovi Orlov and Malygin 1988

Description

Cricetulus sokolovi Orlov and Malygin, 1988. Zool. Zh., 67:305.

TYPE LOCALITY: W Mongolia.

DISTRIBUTION: W and S Mongolia, C Nei Mongol of N China.

COMMENTS: A distinctive species defined by diagnostic chromosomal and pelage traits (Orlov and Malygin, 1988). Samples from the Mongolian segment of the range had been identified as C. obscurus (Krâl et al., 1984, and references therein; Orlov and Malygin, 1988); real obscurus is a form of C. barabensis.

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 538, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Scientific name authorship
Orlov and Malygin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Cricetulus
Species
sokolovi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cricetulus sokolovi and, 1988 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Orlov, V. N., and V. M. Malygin. 1988. [A new species of hamster- - Cricetulus sokolovi sp. n. (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from the People's Republic of Mongolia.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 67: 304 - 308 (in Russian).
  • Kral, B., S. I. Radjabli, A. S. Grafodatskij, and V. N. Orlov. 1984. Comparison of karyotypes, G-bands and NORS in three Cricetulus spp. (Cricetidae, Rodentia). Folia Zoologica, 33: 85 - 96.