Mesocricetus

Mesocricetus Temporal range: Early Pliocene - Recent

Mesocricetus auratus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Cricetinae
Genus:	Mesocricetus Nehring, 1894
Species
Mesocricetus auratus Mesocricetus brandti Mesocricetus newtoni Mesocricetus raddei

Mesocricetus is a genus of Old World hamsters, including the golden hamster or Syrian hamster, the first hamster to be introduced as a domestic pet and still the most popular species for that purpose.

Recent research has shown, unlike almost all other land mammals studied, two species of this genus (M. auratus and M. brandti) lack the capacity for colour vision.^[1]

Species

Mesocricetus auratus: golden hamster
Mesocricetus brandti: Turkish hamster or Brandt's hamster
Mesocricetus newtoni: Romanian hamster
Mesocricetus raddei: Ciscaucasian hamster

Notes

↑ (Williams and Jacobs, 2008).

References

http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/mammalia/rodentia/cricetidae/mesocricetus/
Williams, G. A., & Jacobs, G. H. (2008). Absence of functional short-wavelength sensitive cone pigments in hamsters (Mesocricetus). Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology. doi:10.1007/s00359-008-0316-4

Species of hamsters (subfamily Cricetinae)

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae

Allocricetulus	Mongolian (Allocricetulus curtatus) Eversmann's (Allocricetulus eversmanni)

Cansumys	Gansu (Cansumys canus)

Cricetulus	Tibetan Dwarf (Cricetulus alticola) Striped Dwarf (Cricetulus barabensis) Chinese (Cricetulus griseus) Tibetan Dwarf (Cricetulus kamensis) Lama Dwarf (Cricetulus lama) Long-tailed Dwarf (Cricetulus longicaudatus) Gray Dwarf (Cricetulus migratorius) Sokolov's Dwarf (Cricetulus sokolovi)

Cricetus	Common (Cricetus cricetus)

Mesocricetus	Golden (Mesocricetus auratus) Brandt's (Mesocricetus brandti) Romanian (Mesocricetus newtoni) Ciscaucasian (Mesocricetus raddei)

Phodopus	Campbell's Desert (Phodopus campbelli) Roborovski's Desert (Phodopus roborovskii) Striped Desert (Phodopus sungorus)

Tscherskia	Greater Long-tailed (Tscherskia triton)

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