Mesocricetus Nehring, 1898. Zool. Anz., 21:494. REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR); F. Spitzenberger (FS). COMMENT: Kuznetsov, 1965, in Bobrinskii et al., 1965, Key to the Mammals of the U.S. S.R., Moscow, included Mesocricetus in Cricetus; Corbet, 1978:90, 92, considered both distinct genera, in need of revision. Reviewed by Vorontsov, 1960, C. R. Acad. Sci. U.S. S. R., 132(6): 1448- 1451. Subfamily Cricetinae; see comment under Cricetidae. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008021000000.

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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 426, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031