Lemmus portenkoi
| Wrangel Island lemming | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Superfamily: | Muroidea |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Genus: | Lemmus |
| Species: | L. portenkoi |
| Binomial name | |
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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.
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