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Dicrostonyx unalascensis Merriam 1900
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Dicrostonyx unalascensis Merriam, 1900. Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 2:25.
TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Alaska, Umnak Island.
DISTRIBUTION: Umnak and Unalaska islands of Aleutian Archipelago, Alaska, USA.
SYNONYMS: stevensoni.
COMMENTS: Only species of Dicrostonyx to lack molt to white winter pelage and acquistion of snow claws (see Rausch and Rausch, 1972).
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 511, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Dicrostonyx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Merriam
- Species
- unalascensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dicrostonyx unalascensis Merriam, 1900 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Rausch, R. L., and V. R. Rausch. 1972. Observations on chromosomes of Dicrostonyx torquatus stevensoni Nelson and chromosomal diversity in varying lemmings. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 37: 372 - 384.