Mesocricetus auratus (Waterhouse, 1839)

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 : 426

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scientific name

Mesocricetus auratus (Waterhouse, 1839)
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Mesocricetus auratus (Waterhouse, 1839) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839:57.

TYPE LOCALITY: Syria, Aleppo .

DISTRIBUTION: Asia Minor (Turkey) to Syria; perhaps Lebanon and Israel.

COMMENT: Formerly included brandti ; see Zilfian et al., 1975, [Abstr. Symp. Syst. and Cytogenet. Mamm.], Moscow, p. 18- 19. Corbet, 1978:92, and FS included brandti in this species, but stated that it may be distinct. Records from Lebanon and Israel were doubted by Atallah, 1977, Saugetierk. Mitt., 25: 320. A detailed bibliography was presented in Kittel, 1969, Z. Verzuchstierk., 11: 1 -115. The pet and laboratory strains of golden hamster were derived from this species; see Corbet, 1978:92.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008021001001.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Mesocricetus

Loc

Mesocricetus auratus (Waterhouse, 1839)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl 1982
1982
Loc

Mesocricetus auratus (Waterhouse, 1839)

Waterhouse 1839: 57
1839
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