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Mesocricetus Nehring 1898
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Mesocricetus Nehring, 1898. Zool. Anz., 21:49.
TYPE SPECIES: Cricetus nigricans Brandt, 1832 (= Cricetus raddei Nehring, 1894).
SYNONYMS: Mediocricetus, Semicricetus.
COMMENTS: Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) recognized only one extant species in the genus, but current checklists recognize at least three (Corbet, 1978c; Corbet and Hill, 1991). Pieper (1984) described M. rathgeberi based on Holocene fossils from the Greek island of Armathia (off coast of Kasos Isl between Kriti and Rodhos).
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 538, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Nehring
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Mesocricetus
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesocricetus Nehring, 1898 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
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.
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp.
- Pieper, H. 1984. Eine neue Mesocricetus-Art (Mammalia: Cricetidae) von der griechischen Insel Armathia. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, ser. B, 107: 1 - 9.