Wrangel Island Lemming

Taxobox
name = Wrangel Island Lemming
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
superfamilia = Muroidea
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Arvicolinae
genus = "Lemmus"
species = "L. portenkoi"
binomial = "Lemmus portenkoi"
binomial_authority = Tchernyavsky, 1967The Wrangel Island Lemming or "Lemmus portenkoi", is a common species of lemming endemic to Wrangel Island in Russia. It was included as a subspecies of "L. sibiricus" by Jarrell and Fredga in 1993, while Chernyavskii (also in 1993) regarded it as a separate species.

References

*D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2005: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.