Wrangel Island lemming

Wrangel Island lemming
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
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. Tsytsulina, K. (2008). Lemmus portenkoi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 June 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of data deficient.
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