Cricetulus longicaudatus Milne-Edwards 1867

Cricetulus longicaudatus Milne-Edwards 1867, Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammiferes: 13.

Type Locality: China, N Shanxi (Shansi), near Saratsi.

Vernacular Names: Long-tailed Dwarf Hamster.

Synonyms: Cricetulus andersoni Thomas 1908; Cricetulus chiumalaiensis Wang and Cheng 1973; Cricetulus dichrootis Satunin 1902; Cricetulus griseiventris (Satunin 1903); Cricetulus kozhantschikovi Vinogradov 1927; Cricetulus nigrescens G. M. Allen 1925 .

Distribution: Altai and Tuva regions of Russia and Kazakhstan (Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995), NW China (Xinjiang), Mongolia, and adjacent Chinese regions in Nei Mongol, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Henan, N Shanxi, Ningxia, N Sichuan, and N Xizang (Tibet); see Feng et al. (1986), Qin (1991), Corbet and Hill (1992), Wang (2003), and Zhang et al. (1997).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: G. M. Allen (1940) listed dichrootis as a synonym of C. barabensis, but Corbet (1978 c) included it in C. longicaudatus . Revised by Wang and Zheng (1973).