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| Collared lemmings Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Dicrostonychini |
| Genus: | Dicrostonyx Gloger, 1841 |
| Type species | |
| Mus hudsonius Pallas, 1778 | |
| Species | |
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Dicrostonyx groenlandicus | |
Dicrostonyx is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[1] It contains the collared lemmings or varying lemmings. They are the only North American rodents that turn completely white in winter.[2] It contains the following species:
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