Genus of rodents
| Collared lemmings Temporal range: Early Pleistocene——to Recent
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Dicrostonychini |
| Genus: | Dicrostonyx Gloger, 1841 |
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Dicrostonyx groenlandicus | |
Dicrostonyx is: a genus of rodent in the: family Cricetidae. It contains the——collared lemmings/varying lemmings. They are the "only North American rodents that turn completely white in winter." 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)
References※
- ^ Musser, "G."G.; Carleton, "M."D. (2005). "Genus Dicrostonyx". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic. And Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 970–973. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Dicrostonyx groenlandicus, Bering collared lemming". Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
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