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Rafinesque’s “white-striped lemming”, Lemmus albovittatus

By Eastern Ecological Science Center
Rafinesque’s “white-striped lemming”, Lemmus albovittatus
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Rafinesque’s Mammals
The “white-striped lemming”, Lemmus albovittatus Rafinesque (1818), based on a fraudulent account by John James Audubon. See Woodman (2016): “Pranked by Audubon.” (pen-over-pencil sketches from Rafinesque’s field notebook 17: image SIA2012-6095 courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC.).