Cricetulus sokolovi Orlov and Malygin, 1988

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 538

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Cricetulus sokolovi Orlov and Malygin, 1988 . Zool. Zh., 67:305.

TYPE LOCALITY: W Mongolia .

DISTRIBUTION: W and S Mongolia, C Nei Mongol of N China.

COMMENTS: A distinctive species defined by diagnostic chromosomal and pelage traits ( Orlov and Malygin, 1988). Samples from the Mongolian segment of the range had been identified as C. obscurus ( Krâl et al., 1984, and references therein; Orlov and Malygin, 1988); real obscurus is a form of C. barabensis .