The hamster, Cricetus Cricetus, hibernates for six months and spends the vast majority of its life alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The hamster, Cricetus Cricetus, an animal that hibernates for six months and spends the vast majority of its life alone, has been protected legally since 1993 but is now only found in fields around the eastern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

There is a high diversity of rodents including ground squirrels (Citellus rufescens, C. erythrogenus), hamster (Cricetus Cricetus), jerboa (Allactaga saltator), voles (Microtus oeconomus, Clethrionomys rutilus), and steppe lemming (Eremiomys lagurus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Kazakh forest steppe] Reference

The typical fauna of mammals in the vast Kazakhstan steppes includes the numerous rodents such as ground squirrels (Citellus), hamsters (Cricetus, Cricetulus, Podopus), voles (Microtus), birch mice (Sicista), lemmings (Lagurus), marmots (Marmota bobac); and lagomorphs such as pikas (Ochotona) and hares (Lepus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Kazakh steppe] Reference

11: 29, Isa. 66: 17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricetus), which, though declared to be unclean animals, were eaten by the Arabs, and are still eaten by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Cricetus fulvus, 331.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Genus Cricetus -- The Hamsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference