Hotson\'s Mouse-like Hamster

Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Calomyscidae
Genus:	Calomyscus
Species:	C. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming Extinct because it is either few in numbers or threatened by changing environmental or predation The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands Rodentia is an order of Mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must Mouse-like hamsters are a group of small Rodents found in Syria, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Mouse-like hamsters are a group of small Rodents found in Syria, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and hotsoni

Binomial name

Calomyscus hotsoni
Thomas, 1920

The Hotson's Mouse-like Hamster (Calomyscus hotsoni) is a species of rodent in the Calomyscidae family. (Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas FRS ( February 21, 1858 &ndash June 16, 1929) was a British Zoologist. Rodentia is an order of Mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must Mouse-like hamsters are a group of small Rodents found in Syria, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and It is endemic to southwestern Pakistan and southeastern Iran (Musser and Carleton, 2005). Endemism is the Ecological state of being unique to a place Endemic species are not naturally found elsewhere Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Named by Oldfield Thomas after John Ernest Buttery Hotson who collected specimens in Baluchistan during 1918-1920. (John Ernest Buttery Hotson, KCSI, OBE, VD ( 17 March 1877 &ndash 13 May 1944) was an administrator in

References

Baillie, J. 1996. Calomyscus hotsoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Thomas, Oldfield. 1920. 'Some new Mammals from Baluchistan and North-West India', Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 938-940.

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