Unalaska collared lemming
Appearance
Unalaska collared lemming | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
Genus: | Dicrostonyx |
Species: | D. unalascensis
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Binomial name | |
Dicrostonyx unalascensis Merriam, 1900
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The Unalaska collared lemming (Dicrostonyx unalascensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. This species is found on two islands, Umnak and Unalaska, in the Aleutian Archipelago of Alaska in the United States.[1] Its natural habitat is tundra.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Garibaldi, A. (2019). "Dicrostonyx unalascensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T39974A22331447. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T39974A22331447.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- 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.