Mesocricetus Nehring, 1898 . Zool. Anz., 21:494.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR); F. Spitzenberger (FS).

COMMENT: Kuznetsov, 1965, in Bobrinskii et al., 1965, Key to the Mammals of the U.S. S.R., Moscow, included Mesocricetus in Cricetus; Corbet, 1978:90, 92, considered both distinct genera, in need of revision. Reviewed by Vorontsov, 1960, C. R. Acad. Sci. U.S. S. R., 132(6): 1448- 1451. Subfamily Cricetinae; see comment under Cricetidae .

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