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SpeciesRodentiaCricetidae
Mammals

🐭European hamster

Cricetus cricetus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Europeisk hamster (Cricetus cricetus) är en art i underfamiljen hamstrar och den enda arten i släktet Cricetus.

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≈ 1/160th of your weight
Also called
Black-bellied Hamster, Common Hamster, common hamster, european hamster, black-bellied hamster
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.4 kg
Body length
0.34 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
4 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the European hamster

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.4 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.51 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.34 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
2.2 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
4 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 3.6 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
1.28 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
86 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
20 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 20 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 7
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 7AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.4 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for European hamster yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyCricetidae
  6. ›genusCricetus
  7. ›speciesCricetus cricetus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. subfamilyCricetinae
  4. genusCricetus
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderMyomorpha
  13. familyCricetidae
  14. subfamilyCricetinae
  15. genusCricetus
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Closest relative on this site
🐭 European water vole — last shared an ancestor ≈ 34 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants80%
insects and other invertebrates10%
reptiles, fish and amphibians10%
In other languages
Feldhamster (de), křeček polní (cs), Cricetus cricetus (es), Hamster d'Europe (fr), hamster (nl), 原仓鼠 (zh) … and 23 more languages
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