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Dicrostonyx nelsoni Merriam 1900

Description

Dicrostonyx nelsoni Merriam, 1900. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 2:25.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Alaska, Norton Sound, St. Michael.

DISTRIBUTION: W. coastal Alaska and Alaska Peninsula.

COMMENT: Tentatively includes peninsulae; see Youngman, 1975, Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Can. Publ. Zool., 10: 115 (has not been karyotyped (RSH)). Range poorly known; diploid number is 30 for males and females and the fundamental number is 54; formerly included in torquatus; see Rausch, 1977, in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. Theriol.], Acad. Sci. U.S. S.R., Nauka, Moscow, pp. 162- 177; or groenlandicus; see Hall, 1981:836.

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 483, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034

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Biodiversity

Family
Arvicolidae
Genus
Dicrostonyx
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Merriam
Species
nelsoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dicrostonyx nelsoni Merriam, 1900 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.