Cricetulus

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Cricetulus Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent
Chinese hamster, white-spotted type
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Cricetinae
Genus:	Cricetulus Milne-Edwards, 1867
Type species
Cricetulus griseus[1]
Species
See text.

Cricetulus is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae (voles and hamsters); it has seven member species that inhabit arid or semi-arid regions in Eurasia.

They tend to be more

are often called ratlike hamsters, and so are considered to be members of the genus Cricetulus by many authorities.

Species

• Cricetulus alticola — Tibetan dwarf hamster
• Cricetulus barabensis — Chinese striped hamster
• Cricetulus griseus — Chinese hamster
• Cricetulus kamensis — Kam dwarf hamster
• Cricetulus lama — Lama dwarf hamster
• Cricetulus longicaudatus — long-tailed dwarf hamster
• Cricetulus sokolovi — Sokolov's dwarf hamster

See also

• Phodopus, other dwarf hamsters

References

• Duff, A. and A. Lawson. 2004. Mammals of the World A Checklist. New Haven, Yale University Press.
• Nowak, Ronald M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936 pp.
  ISBN 0-8018-5789-9