Phodopus Miller, 1910 . Smithson. Mise. Coll., 52:498.

TYPE SPECIES: Cricetulus bedfordiae Thomas, 1908 (= Cricetulus roborovskii Satunin, 1903).

SYNONYMS: Cricetiscus .

COMMENTS: Chromosomal data reported by Spyropoulos et al. (1982) and Schmid et al. (1986).