Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Greenland Collared Lemming, Northern Collared Lemming
Description
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Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,347 meters (0 to 4,419 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Mammalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Mammals
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
()
- (Rowe, 1988) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
()
- (Wible Et Al., 1995) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Legion:
Cladotheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Supercohort:
Theria
()
- (Parker & Haswell, 1897) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Cohort:
Placentalia
()
- (Owen, 1837) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) Mckenna, in Stucky & Mckenna, in Benton, Ed., 1993
- Grandorder:
Anagalida
()
- (Szalay & Mckenna, 1971) Mckenna, 1975
- Mirorder:
Simplicidentata
()
- (Weber, 1904) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Order:
Rodentia
()
- Bowdich, 1821
- Rodents
- Suborder:
Myomorpha
()
- Brandt, 1855
- Infraorder:
Myodonta
()
- (Schaub, in Grassé & Dekeyser, 1955) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superfamily:
Muroidea
()
- Illiger, 1811
- Family:
Muridae
()
- (Illiger, 1811) Gray, 1821:303
- Subfamily:
Arvicolinae
()
- Tribe:
Dicrostonychini
()
- Genus:
Dicrostonyx
()
- Gloger, 1841
- Specific name:
groenlandicus
- (Traill, 1823)
- Scientific name: - Dicrostonyx groenlandicus (Traill, 1823)
- Specific name:
groenlandicus
- (Traill, 1823)
- Genus:
Dicrostonyx
(
- Tribe:
Dicrostonychini
(
- Subfamily:
Arvicolinae
(
- Family:
Muridae
(
- Superfamily:
Muroidea
(
- Infraorder:
Myodonta
(
- Suborder:
Myomorpha
(
- Order:
Rodentia
(
- Mirorder:
Simplicidentata
(
- Grandorder:
Anagalida
(
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
(
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
(
- Cohort:
Placentalia
(
- Supercohort:
Theria
(
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
(
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
(
- Legion:
Cladotheria
(
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
(
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
(
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
(
- Class:
Mammalia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 06-Sep-2004
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Dicrostonyx
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 25 species and subspecies in this genus:
D. exsul (St. Lawrence Island Collared Lemming) · D. groenlandicus (Greenland Collared Lemming) · D. groenlandicus exsul (St. Lawrence Island Collared Lemming) · D. groenlandicus groenlandicus (Northern Collared Lemming) · D. groenlandicus nelsoni (Ungava Collared Lemming) · D. groenlandicus richardsoni · D. groenlandicus rubricatus (Victoria Collared Lemming) · D. gulielmi · D. hudsonius (Labrador Collared Lemming) · D. kilangmiutak (Kilangmiutak Collared Lemming) · D. nelsoni (Nelson's Collared Lemming) · D. nunatakensis (Ogilvie Mountains Collared Lemming) · D. richardsoni (Richardson's Collared Lemming) · D. rubricatus (Bering Collared Lemming) · D. simplicior · D. stevensoni · D. torquatus (Siberian Arctic Lemming) · D. torquatus chionopaes · D. torquatus groenlandicus · D. torquatus stevensoni · D. torquatus torquatus (Arctic Lemming) · D. unalascensis (Aleutian Island Collared Lemming) · D. unalascensis stevensoni · D. unalascensis unalascensis (Unalaska Island Collared Lemming) · D. vinogradovi (Wrangel Lemming)
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Further Reading
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- A synopsis of the mammals of North America and the adjacent seas, by Daniel Giraud Elliot... Chicago, [Field Columbia Museum]1901. ENG url p. 444.
- An Arctic ecosystem: the coastal tundra at Barrow, Alaska / edited by Jerry Brown [et al.]. Stroudsburg, Pa.: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross: c1980. ENG url p. 504, p. 9.
- Anglo-russkii biologicheskii slovar' / [avtory, I. N. Afanas'eva et al.; spetsial'nye nauch. redaktory, O. I. Chibisova i L. A. Koziar]. Moskva: Russkii iazyk, 1979. ENG url p. 359.
- Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. ENG url p. 458.
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 398, p. 559, p. 560, p. 825, p. 833.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 511.
- Fauna arctica: eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898 / Unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgenossen h Jena: G. Fischer, 19 GER url p. 95.
- Fauna of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula, by Olaus J. Murie. Invertebrates and fishes collected in the Aleutians, 1936-38, by Victor B. Scheffer. [Washington, Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1959] ENG url p. 318.
- Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. ENG url p. 24.
- Food habits of some Arctic birds and mammals / by Clarence Cottam and Harold C. Hanson. Chicago, ILL: Field Museum of Natural History, c1938. ENG url p. 416.
- Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1946-1996. ENG url p. 11, p. 11, p. 89.
- Monograph of the voles and lemmings (Microtinae) living and extinct / by Martin A.C. Hinton. London, 1926. ENG url p. 148, p. 155.
- Physiological mammalogy. Edited by William V. Mayer and Richard G. Van Gelder. New York, Academic Press, 1963- ENG url p. 318, p. 367.
- Readings in mammalogy: selected from the original literature and introduced with comments / by J. Knox Jones, Jr. and Sydney Anderson. [Lawrence]Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1970. ENG url p. 479, p. 509.
- The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, ENG url p. 226.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
- Rodent Specialist Group 1996. Dicrostonyx groenlandicus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- Rodent Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 20, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- GBIF-Sweden: Mammals (NRM)
- Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science: Mammal specimens
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens
- Sternberg Museum of Natural History: Mammal Collection
- University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of Alaska Museum Mammal Collection
- University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Mammal Collection
- Utah Museum of Natural History: Mammal specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2480543
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-180328
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 180328
- IUCN ID: 42618
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AMAFF18010
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 16691
Footnotes
- Mean = 107.230 meters (351.804 feet), Standard Deviation = 239.320 based on 188 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
