Cricetulus eversmanni Brandt, 1859 . Melanges. Biol. Acad. St. Petersb., p. 210.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Orenburgsk. Obi., near Orenburg .

DISTRIBUTION: Kazakstan, steppes from Volga River to Tarbagatai (U.S. S. R.).

COMMENT: Formerly included in Allocricetulus; formerly included curtatus; see Corbet, 1978:90, 92, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981: 154.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008010003001.