| Urocricetus Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Cricetinae |
| Genus: | Urocricetus Satunin, 1903[1] |
| Type species | |
| Urocricetus kamensis Satunin, 1903[2]
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| Species | |
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Urocricetus alticola (Thomas, 1917)
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Urocricetus is a genus of hamsters found on the Tibetan Plateau in southern Asia. These species have relatively long tails for a hamster, with brownish upperparts and a pure white underside.
- ^ Satunin, K. A. (April 1903). "Neue Nagetiere aus Centralasien". Ежегодникь Зоологическаго Музея. 7: 573–574. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
- ^ Lebedev, V. S.; Bannikova, A. A.; Neumann, K.; Ushakova, M. V.; Ivanova, N. V.; Surov, A. V. (26 February 2018). "Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomy of dwarf hamsters Cricetulus Milne-Edwards, 1867 (Cricetidae, Rodentia): description of a new genus and reinstatement of another". Zootaxa. 4387 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4387.2.5. PMID 29689907. Retrieved 9 December 2024.