Cricetulus barabensis (Pallas, 1773) —Striped Dwarf Hamster, Chinese striped hamster Mus barabensis Pallas, 1773 p.704; Type locality- Kasmalinskii Bor (village in Altai mountain), bank of Ob River, west Siberia, Russia. Cricetulus griseus Milne-Edwards, 1867 p.376; Type locality- Beijing, China. C. griseus fumatus Thomas, 1909 p.503; Type locality- Changchun, Jirin, China; Tate, 1947 p.256. C. manchuricus Mori, 1930a p.419; Type locality- Harbin, Manchuria. C. barabensis fumatus: Chaworth-Musters, 1933 p.223; Won, 1958 p.446; Jones & Johnson, 1965 p.370; Won, 1967 p.209; Won, 1968 p.197; Yoon, 1992 p.72. C. barabensis: Won, 1968 p.197; Han, 1994 p.47; Won & Smith, 1999 p.26; Han, 2004c p.138. Range: The striped dwarf hamster has a distribution limited to northern Korea, especially the extreme northwestern and northeastern areas (Fig. 117). Striped dwarf hamsters have been collected in Sinuiju City, Cheolsan County, Pyeonganbuk Province (northwestern province) and Onseong-County, Hamgyeongbuk-Province (northeastern province) (Han 2004c). Remarks: Morphometric analysis of the C. barabensis group supported griseus as a subspecies (Lebedev & Lissovsky 2008). Cricetulus barabensis griseus is the subspecies in Korea.

Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on pages 171-172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198