Dicrostonyx groenlandicus Traill 1823

Dicrostonyx groenlandicus Traill, 1823. In Scoresby, Jour. Voy. to Northern Whale-Fishery, p. 4 i 6. TYPE LOCALITY: Greenland, Jameson's Land (Denmark). DISTRIBUTION: N. Greenland, west to Baffin, Southampton, Axel Heiberg, Melville and Prince Patrick Isis. (Canada). COMMENT: Includes clarus an...

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Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Dicrostonyx
Dicrostonyx groenlandicus
Yukon
Canada
Greenland
Scoresby
Heiberg
Youngman
Baffin
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7203850
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203850
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Summary:Dicrostonyx groenlandicus Traill, 1823. In Scoresby, Jour. Voy. to Northern Whale-Fishery, p. 4 i 6. TYPE LOCALITY: Greenland, Jameson's Land (Denmark). DISTRIBUTION: N. Greenland, west to Baffin, Southampton, Axel Heiberg, Melville and Prince Patrick Isis. (Canada). COMMENT: Includes clarus and, tentatively, lentus; see Youngman, 1975, Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Can. Publ. Zool., 10: 115 (neither taxon has been kayotyped (RSH)). Limits of distribution uncertain; diploid number is 46 for male and female, and the fundamental number is 52. Formerly included in torquatus; see Rausch, 1977, in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. Theriol.], Acad. Sci. U.S. S.R., Nauka, Moscow, pp. 162- 177. Hall, 1981:835-837, included all N. American taxa except hudsonius under this name. See also comments under genus Dicrostonyx. Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 482, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353034

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