Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 955 1189 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Tscherskia Ognev 1914 Tscherskia Ognev 1914 , Moskva Dnev. Zool. otd. obsc. liub. jest., 2: 102 . Type Species: Tscherskia albipes Ognev 1914 Synonyms: Asiocricetus Kishida 1929 . Species and subspecies: 1 species: Species Tscherskia triton (de Winton 1899) Discussion: Although many have included Tscherskia in Cricetulus (G. M. Allen, 1940; Corbet, 1978 c ; Corbet and Hill, 1992 ; Ellerman, 1941 ; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951 ; Zhang et al., 1997 ), its distinctive morphology suggests distant relationship to the dwarf hamsters and generic segregation ( Carleton and Musser, 1984 ; Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995 ; Musser and Carleton, 1993 ; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987 ; Pavlinov et al., 1995 a ). Oldest records date to Late Pliocene of Europe ( McKenna and Bell, 1997 ).