Unalaska collared lemming
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Species: | D. unalascensis
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Dicrostonyx unalascensis Merriam, 1900
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The Unalaska collared lemming (Dicrostonyx unalascensis) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae. This species is found on two islands, Umnak and Unalaska, in the Aleutian Archipelago of Alaska in the United States.[1] Its natural habitat is tundra.
References
- ^ a b Template:IUCN2008 Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of data deficient.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. (2005). Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.