Cricetulus kamensis Satunin 1903

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 : 1042

Cricetulus kamensis Satunin 1903

Cricetulus kamensis Satunin 1903 , Ann. Zool. Mus . St. Petersbourg, 7: 574.

Type Locality: China, NE Tibet (Xizang Prov.), Mekong Dist., Moktschjun River.

Vernacular Names: Tibetan Dwarf Hamster.

Synonyms: Cricetulus kozlovi Satunin 1903 ; Cricetulus tibetanus Thomas 1922 .

Distribution: China, Tibetan Plateau ( SE Xinjiang, Xizang, and adjacent parts of Qinghai and Gansu; Zhang et al., 1997).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Some workers would include alticola as a subspecies ( Feng et al., 1986; Wang, 2003; Zhang et al., 1997; see account of C. alticola ). G. M. Allen (1940) treated kozlovi as a synonym of C. barabensis , and lama was listed as a species by Ellerman (1941) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). See Wang and Zheng (1973) for the association of kozlovi , lama, and tibetanus as subjective synonyms of C. kamensis .