Nothocricetulus migratorius (Pallas, 1773)

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 42

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121264

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scientific name

Nothocricetulus migratorius (Pallas, 1773)
status

 

19. Gray Dwarf Hamster, Nothocricetulus migratorius (Pallas, 1773)

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Subspecies: N. m. phaeus (Pallas, 1779); cinerascens (Wagner, 1848) is a synonym.

Distribution: Common and widely spread in rocky habitats covered by grasslands; avoids arid and semi-arid areas ( Fig. 25 View FIGURE 25 ).

Previous records: Hamah ( Aharoni 1932), Qal’at Al-Hosson ( Pradel 1981; Nadachowski et al. 1990), Mount Hermon (Yom-Tov 1988; Filippucci et al. 1989), Aleppo, Hamah, and Al-Qaryatein ( Harrison 1972), between Mhardeh-Shaizar and ar- Rasafah (Shehab et al. 2004), Mzeirib and Khrab Al-Shaham ( Shehab 2005), Khrab Al-Shaham, Serghaya, Muzirib, Daraa Dam, Kharabow, Busra, Karahta, ash-Sheikh Miskeen and Tafas ( Shehab et al. 2018), and Yahmool ( Shehab & Charabi 2006).

Remarks:The genus name used by earlier authors was Cricetulus ,moved now to the recently described Nothocricetulus ( Lebedev et al. 2018) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Nothocricetulus

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