Browsing Archive: September, 2009

European Hamster

Posted by Bebs0219 on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
The European Hamster, Cricetus cricetus, also known as the Black-bellied Hamster or Common Hamster, is a species of hamster native to Europe. It is typically found in low-lying farmland with soft loam or loess soils, although it may also inhabit meadows, gardens, or hedges. It is widely considered a farmland pest, and has also been trapped for its fur. The black-bellied hamster is found from Belgium (e.g. Bertem with a thriving population) and Alsace in the west, to Russia in the east, and R...

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Chinese Hamster

Posted by on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
The Chinese Hamster is a species of hamster, scientific names Cricetulus griseus, which originates in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia.

Description

These animals grow to between 7.5 and 9 cm in length and as adults can weigh 50-75 grams. They live two to three years on average. The Chinese hamster is often kept as a pet or (in the past) as a laboratory animal.

A Chinese hamster's body proportions, compared with those of other hamsters, appear "long and thin" and they have (for a hamste...

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Chinese Striped Hamster

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The Chinese Striped Hamster (Cricetulus barabensis), also known as the Striped Dwarf Hamster, is a species of hamster. It is distributed across Northern Asia, from southern Siberia through Mongolia and northeastern China to northern North Korea. An adult Chinese Striped Hamster weighs 16.7-31.0g, and has a body length of 74.2-103.6 mm with a tail of 21-36 mm. It is smaller and has a much shorter tail than the Greater Long-tailed Hamster, Tscherskia triton, which inhabits much of the same ran...

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Ratlike Hamster

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Ratlike Hamsters

Chinese hamster, white-spotted type
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Cricetinae
Genus: Cricetulus
Milne-Edwards, 1867
Species

Cricetulus alticola  
Cricetulus barabensis
Cricetulus griseus
Cricetulus kamensis
Cricetulus longicaudatus
Cricetulus migratorius
Cricetulus sokolovi

The ratlike hamsters are a group of hamsters that inhabit arid or semi-arid regions in Eurasia. T...

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Winter White Russian Dwarf Hamster

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Winter White Russian Hamsters

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Myomorpha
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Cricetinae
Genus: Phodopus
Species: P. sungorus
Binomial name
Phodopus sungorus
(Pallas, 1773)
Subspecies

Phodopus sungorus sungorus (see text)

Winter White Russian hamsters are a species of Hamster in the genus Phodopus. They ar...

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Campbell's Dwarf Hamster

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Campbell's Russian Dwarf Hamster

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Cricetinae
Genus: Phodopus
Species: P. campbelli
Binomial name
Phodopus campbelli
(Thomas, 1905)
Campbell's Russian dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli) is a species of dwarf hamster. It was discovered by W.C. Campbell in 1902 in Tuva, an area that has historically been geog...

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Dwarf Hamster

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Dwarf Hamsters

Dwarf Russian Hamster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Cricetinae
Genus: Phodopus
Miller, 1910
Species

Phodopus campbelli
Phodopus roborovskii
Phodopus sungorus

The dwarf hamsters represent a group of small hamsters in the genus Phodopus. Although they do not belong to this genus, the Chinese Hamster is often referred to as a dwarf hamster as well.

Species

  • Genus Phod...

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Syrian Hamster

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Syrian Hamster

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Myomorpha
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Cricetinae
Genus: Mesocricetus
Species: M. auratus
Binomial name
Mesocricetus auratus
Waterhouse, 1839
The Syrian Hamster or Golden Hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is a very well-known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the ...

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Hamsters in General

Posted by on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,

Hamster

Hamster

Syrian Hamster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Myomorpha
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Cricetinae
Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
Genera

Mesocricetus
Phodopus
Cricetus
Cricetulus
Allocricetulus
Cansumys
Tscherskia

Hamsters are rodents belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. The subfamily contains about 24 species, classified in six or seven genera.[1]

Hamsters a...

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