Collared lemming
| Collared lemmings Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Dicrostonychini |
| Genus: | Dicrostonyx Gloger, 1841 |
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| Mus hudsonius Pallas, 1778 | |
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Dicrostonyx groenlandicus | |
Dicrostonyx is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[1] Its members are known as collared lemmings or varying lemmings. The genus is restricted to high latitudes in the northern hemisphere; one species, the Arctic lemming, has a broad distribution in northern Russia, while the rest are mostly or entirely North American in distribution. They are the only rodents that turn completely white in winter.[2]
Dicrostonyx contains the following species:
- Northern collared lemming (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus)
- Ungava collared lemming (Dicrostonyx hudsonius)
- Nelson's collared lemming (Dicrostonyx nelsoni)
- Ogilvie Mountains collared lemming (Dicrostonyx nunatakensis)
- Richardson's collared lemming (Dicrostonyx richardsoni)
- Arctic lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus)
- Unalaska collared lemming (Dicrostonyx unalascensis)
References
[edit]- ↑ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Genus Dicrostonyx". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 970–973. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ "Dicrostonyx groenlandicus, Bering collared lemming". Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
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