Collared lemming

Collared lemmings
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Tribe: Dicrostonychini
Genus: Dicrostonyx
Gloger, 1841
Type species
Mus hudsonius
Pallas, 1778
Species

Dicrostonyx groenlandicus
Dicrostonyx hudsonius
Dicrostonyx nelsoni
Dicrostonyx nunatakensis
Dicrostonyx richardsoni
Dicrostonyx torquatus
Dicrostonyx unalascensis

Dicrostonyx is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[1] It contains the collared lemmings or varying lemmings. They are the only North American rodents that turn completely white in winter.[2] It contains the following species:

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Dicrostonyx groenlandicus, Bering collared lemming". Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
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