Wrangel Island lemming

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Wrangel Island lemming
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L. portenkoi
Binomial name
Lemmus portenkoi
Tchernyavsky, 1967

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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.
  • 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.