Urocricetus
Sign in to saveUrocricetus is a genus of hamsters found on the Tibetan Plateau in southern Asia. These species have relatively long tails for a hamster, with brownish upperparts and a pure white underside.
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Urocricetus is a genus of hamsters found on the Tibetan Plateau in southern Asia. These species have relatively long tails for a hamster, with brownish upperparts and a pure white underside.
==Taxonomy== The genus Urocricetus was originally described by the Russian zoologist Konstantin Satunin as a subgenus of Cricetus. Urocricetus would be sometimes recognized as a subgenus of Cricetulus until 2018, when a phylogenetic study revealed this genus to be valid. This genus is a sister taxa to the desert hamster genus Phodopus.