- Collared lemming
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Collared lemmings
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to RecentScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae Tribe: Dicrostonychini Genus: Dicrostonyx
Gloger, 1841Species Dicrostonyx groenlandicus
Dicrostonyx hudsonius
Dicrostonyx nelsoni
Dicrostonyx nunatakensis
Dicrostonyx richardsoni
Dicrostonyx torquatus
Dicrostonyx unalascensis
Dicrostonyx vinogradoviDicrostonyx is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It contains the collared lemmings. It 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)
- Wrangel Lemming (Dicrostonyx vinogradovi)
References
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Categories:- Voles and lemmings
- Arvicolinae stubs
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