Collared lemming

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Collared lemmings Fossil range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae Tribe: Dicrostonychini Genus: Dicrostonyx Gloger, 1841
Species
Dicrostonyx groenlandicus Dicrostonyx hudsonius Dicrostonyx nelsoni Dicrostonyx nunatakensis Dicrostonyx richardsoni Dicrostonyx torquatus Dicrostonyx unalascensis Dicrostonyx vinogradovi

Dicrostonyx is a genus of rodent in the Cricetidae family. 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)

[edit] 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.