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Dicrostonyx torquatus

Description

Dicrostonyx torquatus (Pallas, 1778). Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord., p. 206.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., mouth of Ob River.

DISTRIBUTION: Palearctic tundra from White Sea to Chukotka (U.S. S.R.), Novaya Zemlya, and New Siberian Isis.

COMMENT: Formerly included groenlandicus and vinogradovi; see Corbet, 1978:96, but see Rausch, 1977, in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. Theriol.], Acad. Sci. U.S. S. R., Nauka, Moscow, pp. 162- 177, who considered them distinct species. Includes chionopaes which may be a distinct species; see Gileva, 1975, Dokl. Akad. Nauk, 224:697-700, Gileva, 1980:99- 103, in Vorontsov and Van Brink, eds., Animal genetics and evolution, Junk, The Hague, and Kozlovskii, 1974, Dokl. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 219:981-984. See also comments under genus Dicrostonyx.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008073002001.

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
Pallas
Species
torquatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dicrostonyx torquatus (Pallas, 1778) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • 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).