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Dicrostonyx hudsonius (Ungava collared lemming; Labrador collared lemming)

Synonyms: Mus hudsonius (homotypic)
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The Ungava collared lemming or Labrador collared lemming (Dicrostonyx hudsonius) is a small North American lemming. This species has a short, chunky body covered with brownish-grey fur, with a thin dark stripe along the back and a yellow line along its sides. It has small ears, short legs and a very short tail, and a reddish collar across its chest and a reddish patch behind its ears. In winter, it is covered with white fur, and develops enlarged digging claws on its front feet. They average 14 cm long with a 1.5 cm tail, and weigh about 60 g.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.08
EDGE Score: 1.4
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  57 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  20 days
Litter Size [3]  3
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  1 year
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6 inches (16 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Canadian Shield taiga Canada Nearctic Boreal Forests/Taiga
Low Arctic tundra Canada Nearctic Tundra
Torngat Mountain tundra Canada Nearctic Tundra

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gates of the Arctic National Park Ib 184461 Alaska, United States
Noatak Biosphere Reserve 7500143 Alaska, United States  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratophyllus garei[4]
Heligmosomum hudsonius <Unverified Name>[5]
Megabothris groenlandicus[4]
Megabothris quirini[4]
Paranoplocephala variabilis <Unverified Name>[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4International Flea Database
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0