Cricetulus longicaudatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867) . Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammifères, p. 13.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, N Shanxi (Shansi), near Saratsi .

DISTRIBUTION: Altai and Tuva regions of Russia and Kazakhstan, NW China (Xinjiang), Mongolia, and adjacent regions of China south to N Tibet (Feng et al., 1986; Qin, 1991).

SYNONYMS: andersoni, chiumalaiensis, dichrootis, griseiventris (Satunin, 1903, not Thomas, 1917), kozhantschikovi, nigrescens .