Cricetulus obscurus Milne-Edwards, 1867

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 406

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scientific name	Cricetulus obscurus Milne-Edwards, 1867
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Cricetulus obscurus Milne-Edwards, 1867 View in CoL . Rech. Mamm., p. 136.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, N. Shansi, Saratsi .

DISTRIBUTION: Kansu to Shansi ( China) and S.C. and S. E. Mongolia.

COMMENT: Included in barabensis by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:624; but see Sokolov and Orlov, 1980, [Guide to the Mammals of Mongolian P.R.], p. 123, who considered obscurus a karyotypically and morphologically distinct species.

References

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Sokolov, V. E., and V. N. Orlov. 1980. Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchickh Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki [Guide to the mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic]. Nauka, Moscow, 351 pp. (in Russian).