We already know that cutely hamsters are rodent. But did you ever know that based on the scientific classification in biology there are 7 genera (genus) and 25 species of hamsters has been identified?
hamster playing after eating| Biological Classification of Hamster |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Myomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Muroidea |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Cricetinae (Johann Fischer von Waldheim, 1817) |
| Hamster Genera and Species |
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- Mesocricetus (Nehring, 1894)
- Mesocricetus auratus (Waterhouse, 1839)
- Mesocricetus brandti (Alfred Nehring, 1898)
- Mesocricetus newtoni (Alfred Nehring, 1898)
- Mesocricetus raddei (Alfred Nehring, 1894)
- Phodopus (Gerrit Smith Miller, 1910)
- Phodopus campbelli (Thomas, 1905)
- Phodopus sungorus (Peter Simon Pallas, 1773)
- Phodopus roborovskii (Satunin, 1903)
- Cricetus (Nathaniel Gottfried Leske, 1779)
- Cricetus cricetus (Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cricetulus (Milne-Edwards, 1867)
- Cricetulus alticola (Thomas, 1917)
- Cricetulus barabensis (Peter Simon Pallas, 1773)
- Cricetulus griseus (Milne-Edwards, 1867)
- Cricetulus kamensis (Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin, 1903)
- Cricetulus longicaudatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867)
- Cricetulus migratorius (Peter Simon Pallas, 1773)
- Cricetulus sokolovi (Orlov & Malygin, 1988)
- Allocricetulus (Argyropulo, 1932)
- Allocricetulus curtatus (G. M. Allen, 1925)
- Allocricetulus eversmanni (Brandt, 1859)
- Cansumys (G. M. Allen, 1928)
- Cansumys canus (G. M. Allen, 1928)
- Tscherskia (Ognev, 1914)
- Tscherskia triton (De Winton, 1899)
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Hamster Facts: Scientific Classification was first published on the Hamster Allergies
