Tscherskia Ognev 1914

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1046

Tscherskia Ognev 1914

Tscherskia Ognev 1914 , Moskva Dnev. Zool. otd. obsc. liub. jest., 2: 102.

Type Species: Tscherskia albipes Ognev 1914

Synonyms: Asiocricetus Kishida 1929 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Tscherskia triton (de Winton 1899)

Discussion: Although many have included Tscherskia in Cricetulus (G. M. Allen, 1940; Corbet, 1978 c; Corbet and Hill, 1992; Ellerman, 1941; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Zhang et al., 1997), its distinctive morphology suggests distant relationship to the dwarf hamsters and generic segregation ( Carleton and Musser, 1984; Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Pavlinov et al., 1995 a). Oldest records date to Late Pliocene of Europe ( McKenna and Bell, 1997).