Cricetulus curtatus Allen, 1925 . Am. Mus. Novit., 179:3.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, W. Inner Mongolia, Iren Dabasu (= Ehrlien) .

DISTRIBUTION: Steppes of S. Mongolia north of the Altai Mtns, to Inner Mongolia, Honan, and Ningsia (China).

COMMENT: Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1966:626, considered this a subspecies of eversmanni, but see Orlov et al., 1978, in [Geography and Dynamics of Plants and Animals in Mongolian P.R.], pp. 149- 164. Formerly included in Allocricetulus; see Corbet, 1978:90; but also see Gromov and Baranova, 1981: 154.