Chinese Striped Hamster
The Chinese Striped Hamster (Cricetulus barabensis), also known as the Striped Dwarf Hamster, is a species of hamster. It is distributed across Northern Asia, from southern Siberia through Mongolia and northeastern China to northern North Korea. An adult Chinese Striped Hamster weighs 16.7-31.0g, and has a body length of 74.2-103.6mm with a tail of 21-36mm. It is smaller and has a much shorter tail than the Greater Long-tailed Hamster, Tscherskia triton, which inhabits much of the same range.
Latin Nomenclature
There is quite some confusion over the latin name of the Chinese striped hamster and the closely related Chinese hamster. Some people consider the Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus) and the Chinese striped hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) different species http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=10028, whereas others classify them as identical http://walnut.bioc.columbia.edu/srs7bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-id+4mKAd1Sl9c0+%5Btaxonomy-ID:10029%5D+-e, the Chinese striped hamster as a subspecies of the Chinese hamster (in which case the latin name of the Chinese striped hamster would be Cricetulus griseus barabensis) http://www.ratbehavior.org/pet_rodent_classification.htm or the other way round (in which case the latin name of the Chinese hamster would be Cricetulus barabensis griseus) http://www.napak.com/chinese_hamster.html.
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fr:Cricetulus barabensis
id:Hamster kerdil bergaris
hu:Kínai csíkos törpehörcsög
pl:Chomik stepowy
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