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Nearctic Brown Lemming

Lemmus trimucronatus

Classification

The Canadian lemming or Nearctic brown lemming (Lemmus trimucronatus) is a small North American lemming. Taxonomy The taxonomy of the Canadian lemming is tangled with the Siberian brown lemming and the Beringian lemming. The Canadian lemming was formerly thought to be a subspecies of the Siberian brown lemming (Lemmus sibiricus), but those were split into two distinct species.

Distribution

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