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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Dicrostonyx
SPECIES Dicrostonyx hudsonius
Author: | Pallas, 1778. | Citation: | Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord.: 208. | Common Name: | Ungava Collared Lemming | Type Locality: | Canada, Labrador. | Distribution: | NE Labrador, N Quebec, and Belcher Isls in Hudson Bay, Canada. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Unbanded karyotype resembles that of D. richardsoni (see Krohne, 1982); lack of XY-autosomal fusion believed to be primitive within the genus (Borowik and Engstrom, 1993). Relatively early origination, possibly well before the Wisconsin glaciation, proposed from collared lemming stock isolated in periglacial tundra to the southeast of the continental ice sheet (Borowik and Engstrom, 1993; Eger, 1995). Geographic and nongeographic variation evaluated by Eger (1995). |
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