Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster

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Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Calomyscidae Genus: Calomyscus Species: C. hotsoni
Binomial name
Calomyscus hotsoni Thomas, 1920

The Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster (Calomyscus hotsoni) is a species of rodent in the Calomyscidae family. It is endemic to southwestern Pakistan and southeastern Iran (Musser and Carleton, 2005). Named by Oldfield Thomas after John Ernest Buttery Hotson who collected specimens in Baluchistan during 1918-1920.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Calomyscus hotsoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• Thomas, Oldfield. 1920. 'Some new Mammals from Baluchistan and North-West India', Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 938-940.

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