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Dicrostonyx groenlandicus Traill 1823

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Description

Dicrostonyx groenlandicus Traill, 1823. In Scoresby, Jour. Voy. to Northern Whale-Fishery, p. 4 i 6.

TYPE LOCALITY: Greenland, Jameson's Land (Denmark).

DISTRIBUTION: N. Greenland, west to Baffin, Southampton, Axel Heiberg, Melville and Prince Patrick Isis. (Canada).

COMMENT: Includes clarus and, tentatively, lentus; see Youngman, 1975, Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Can. Publ. Zool., 10: 115 (neither taxon has been kayotyped (RSH)). Limits of distribution uncertain; diploid number is 46 for male and female, and the fundamental number is 52. Formerly included in torquatus; see Rausch, 1977, in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. Theriol.], Acad. Sci. U.S. S.R., Nauka, Moscow, pp. 162- 177. Hall, 1981:835-837, included all N. American taxa except hudsonius under this name. See also comments under genus Dicrostonyx.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 482, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034

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Related works

Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD61569FFA704276E76FFF8C013FFC6 (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Arvicolidae
Genus
Dicrostonyx
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Traill
Species
groenlandicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dicrostonyx groenlandicus Traill, 1823 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Youngman, P. M. 1975. Mammals of the Yukon Territory. National Museum of Natural Sciences (Ottawa), Publications in Zoology, 10: 1 - 192.
  • Rausch, R. L. 1977. On the zoogeography of some Beringian mammals. Pp. 162 - 177, in Uspekhi sovremennoi teriologii [Advances in modern theriology] (V. E. Sokolov, ed.). Nauka, Moscow, 296 pp. (in Russian).
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.