Tibetan Dwarf Hamster

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Tibetan Dwarf Hamster
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Cricetulus
Species: C. alticola
Binomial name
Cricetulus alticola
Thomas, 1917

The Tibetan Dwarf Hamster (Cricetulus alticola) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It it found in China, India, and Nepal.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Cricetulus alticola. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 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.
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