Order Rodentia (Part 4) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 477 504 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353034 4170533d-8435-4cb4-93df-e7f9489eb798 0-89327-235-3 7353034 Dicrostonyx nelsoni Merriam, 1900 . Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 2:25 . TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A. , Alaska , Norton Sound, St. Michael . DISTRIBUTION: W. coastal Alaska and Alaska Peninsula. COMMENT: Tentatively includes peninsulae; see Youngman, 1975 , Mammals of the Yukon Terr., Nat. Mus. Can. Publ. Zool., 10: 115 (has not been karyotyped (RSH)). Range poorly known; diploid number is 30 for males and females and the fundamental number is 54; formerly included in torquatus ; see Rausch, 1977 , in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. Theriol.], Acad. Sci. U.S. S.R., Nauka, Moscow, pp. 162- 177; or groenlandicus ; see Hall, 1981:836 .