all "black bear", panda bear, teddy bear, long haird, etc...etc.. (basicly the larger hamsters) are Syrian hamsters (no matter what the pet shop says, the better the name, the higher the price). All the small ones are dwarfs, then cut up into different groups, robos, chinese, etc...etc...
I myself have a black (black bear) syrian girlie.
While neat, be sure that the female is DEFINITLY in heat, otherwise 2 syrians will fight to the death
you also can't touch the pups until they are about 2 wks old, and can't clean the cage during that time either, they eat their babies about as much as mice do.