Dicrostonyx nelsoni Merriam 1900

Dicrostonyx nelsoni Merriam, 1900. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 2:25. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Alaska, Norton Sound, St. Michael. DISTRIBUTION: W. coastal Alaska and Alaska Peninsula. COMMENT: Tentatively includes peninsulae; see Youngman, 1975, Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Can. Publ. Zool., 10: 1...

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Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
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Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7203856
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203856
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Summary:Dicrostonyx nelsoni Merriam, 1900. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 2:25. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Alaska, Norton Sound, St. Michael. DISTRIBUTION: W. coastal Alaska and Alaska Peninsula. COMMENT: Tentatively includes peninsulae; see Youngman, 1975, Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Can. Publ. Zool., 10: 115 (has not been karyotyped (RSH)). Range poorly known; diploid number is 30 for males and females and the fundamental number is 54; formerly included in torquatus; see Rausch, 1977, in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. Theriol.], Acad. Sci. U.S. S.R., Nauka, Moscow, pp. 162- 177; or groenlandicus; see Hall, 1981:836. 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 483, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353034