Mouse-Like Hamsters - Hotson's Brush-Tailed Mouse, Mouse-Like Hamster, Zagros Mounhotson's Brush-Tailed Mouse, Mouse-Like Hamster, Zagros Mountains Mouse-Like Hamster, Urar Mouse-Like Hamster Tains Mouse-Like Hamster, Urar Mouse-Like Hamster (Paperback)

Chapters: Hotson's Brush-Tailed Mouse, Mouse-Like Hamster, Zagros Mountains Mouse-Like Hamster, Urar Mouse-Like Hamster, Calomyscus Grandis, Tsolov's Mouse-Like Hamster, Baluchi Mouse-Like Hamster, Great Balkhan Mouse-Like Hamster, Calomyscus Elburzensis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hotson's Brush-tailed Mouse (Calomyscus hotsoni) also known as Hotson's Calomyscus or Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster is a species of rodent in the Calomyscidae family. It is endemic to southwestern Pakistan and southeastern Iran (Musser and Carleton, 2005; Norris et al., 2008). The species was named by Oldfield Thomas after John Ernest Buttery Hotson who collected the original 4 specimens in Balochistan in 1918. The species had traditionally been called Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster because of the presumed relationship between members of the genus Calomyscus and the hamsters. Musser and Carleton (1993) considered Calomyscus to be distinct enough from the hamsters to warrant a distinct subfamily. Numerous molecular studies (Michaux et al., 2001; Jansa and Weksler, 2004; Steppan et al., 2004) have supported the distinctive nature of the genus, and they are currently recognized as belonging to a distinct family, Calomyscidae (Musser and Carleton, 2005). In order to underscore that members of the genus Calomyscus are not related to hamsters, Musser and Carlton (2005) suggested the name Hotson's Calomyscus, using the genus name as a common name. Norris et al. (2008) agreed that the use of the term "hamster" should be avoided, but disagreed with the application of a genus name in place of a common name. Although they preferred the use of a local name, they reported that the languages of southern Pakistan do not distinguish among small rodent species (see haraam). Instead...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1252019