Wrangel Lemming

Wrangel Lemming
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Dicrostonyx
Species:	D. vinogradovi
Binomial name
Dicrostonyx vinogradovi Ognev, 1948

The Wrangel Lemming (Dicrostonyx vinogradovi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Russia. Its natural habitat is tundra. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

1. ^ Tsytsulina, K. (2008). Dicrostonyx vinogradovi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 May 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of data deficient.

• 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.