Unalaska Collared Lemming

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Unalaska Collared Lemming
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Dicrostonyx
Species: D. unalascensis
Binomial name
Dicrostonyx unalascensis
Merriam, 1900

The Unalaska Collared Lemming (Dicrostonyx unalascensis) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in the United States. Its natural habitat is tundra.

[edit] References

  • Cook, J.A. 2000. Dicrostonyx unalascensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  • 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.