
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.
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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).