Tscherskia triton (de Winton, 1899 )

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zootaxa 4522 (1), pp. 1-216 : 171

Tscherskia triton (de Winton, 1899) —Greater Long-tailed Hamster

Cricetus (Cricetulus) triton de Winton in Winton & Styan, 1899 p.575; Type locality- northern Shandon (Shantung), China.

Cricetulus nestor Thomas, 1907b p.466 ; Type locality- Gimhwa (Kim-hoa), Gangwon Province, Korea; Kishida & Mori, 1931 p.377.

Tscherskia triton albipes Ognev, 1914 p.102 ; Type locality- southern Ussuri , Siberia.

Cricetulus triton nester: Howell, 1929 p.50 ; Kuroda, 1938 p.58; Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.626; Won, 1958 p.446; Jones & Johnson, 1965 p.370; Won, 1967 p.202; Won, 1968 p.195; Yoon, 1992 p.73.

Asiocricetus bampensis Kishida, 1929 p.150 ; Type locality- Manpo, Korea; Kishida & Mori, 1931 p.377; Tate, 1947 p.257 (hampensis likely a misprint of bampensis ).

A. yamashinai Kishida, 1929 p.156 ; Type locality- Manpo; Kishida & Mori, 1931 p.377; Tate, 1947 p.257.

Cricetulus triton: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.626 ; Won, 1968 p.194; Corbet, 1978 p.92.

Tscherskia triton: Han, 1994 p.47 ; Won & Smith, 1999 p.26; Han, 2004c p.139; Jo et al., 2012 p.253.

Range: The greater long-tailed hamster occurs throughout the Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island ( Fig. 116 ).

Remarks: Thomas (1907b) found specimens from Korea larger in size than those from China. In Korea, including Jeju Island, the Subspecies T. t. nestor occurs ( Jones & Johnson 1965). Koh et al. (2013) showed that the subpopulation from Jeju Island was an allopatric phylogroup. However, the subspecific status of greater long-tailed hamster from Jeju Island remains uncertain.

Conservation status: Koh et al. (2013) advocated that the rare, endemic, genetically distinct, population of T. t. nestor Thomas, 1907 on Jeju Island required special protection as an endangered species.

Figures

FIGURE 116. Range map of Tscherskia triton in Korea.