Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster
- Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster
Taxobox
name = Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster
status = EN | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Calomyscidae
genus = "Calomyscus"
species = "C. hotsoni"
binomial = "Calomyscus hotsoni"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1920
synonyms = The Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster ("Calomyscus hotsoni") is a species of rodent in the Calomyscidae family.It is endemic to southwestern Pakistan and southeastern Iran (Musser and Carleton, 2005). Named by Oldfield Thomas after John Ernest Buttery Hotson who collected specimens in Baluchistan during 1918-1920.
References
* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/3620/all Calomyscus hotsoni] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
* Thomas, Oldfield. 1920. 'Some new Mammals from Baluchistan and North-West India', "Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society", vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 938-940.
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