Biology:Wrangel Island lemming

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Short description: Species of rodent

Wrangel Island lemming
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Genus: Lemmus
Species:
L. portenkoi
Binomial name
Lemmus portenkoi
Tchernyavsky, 1967

The Wrangel Island lemming (Lemmus portenkoi) is a species of lemming endemic to Wrangel Island in Russia . It was included as a subspecies of L. sibiricus by Jarrell and Fredga in 1993, while Chernyavskii (also in 1993) regarded it as a separate species.

References

  1. Kennerley, R. (2019). "Lemmus portenkoi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T136303A22336051. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136303A22336051.en. 
  • D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Wikidata ☰ Q1762854 entry