Cricetulus alticola Thomas 1917 Cricetulus alticola Thomas 1917, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 19: 455. Type Locality: India, Ladak (Kashmir), Shushul, 13,500 ft (4115 m). Vernacular Names: Ladak Dwarf Hamster. Distribution: NE India in Jammu and Ladak (Agrawal, 2000), Nepal (Lim and Ross, 1992), and western part of Tibetan Plateau (Xizang) in China (Feng et al., 1986). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Conventionally recognized as a species (Corbet, 1978 c; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Ellerman, 1941, 1961; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov et al., 1995 a), but Feng et al. (1986) considered alticola to be a subspecies of C. kamensis that occurs in W Xizang Prov. (an allocation followed by Zhang et al., 1997, and Wang, 2003).

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1041, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535