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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Eutheria > Rodentia > Muridae > Arvicolinae > Cricetinae

Preferred term

Cricetinae  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Hamster
  • Hamsters

Note

  • check tag: NIM no qualifiers for HAMSTERS or any CRICETINAE

Scope note

  • A subfamily in the family MURIDAE, comprising the hamsters. Four of the more common genera are Cricetus, CRICETULUS; MESOCRICETUS; and PHODOPUS.

History note

  • 2006 (1963)

In other languages

  • hamsterit

    Finnish

  • Cricetinae
  • hamsterien alaheimo
  • Hamstrar

    Swedish

  • Europeisk hamster

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006224

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