Synaptomys cooperi - #6006
Southern Bog Lemming
Skull & dentary. Linzey personal collection #469 (currently in collection of Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania) West Virginia, Pocahontas County, Spruce Knob
Geographic Distribution
Midwestern and E USA through SE Canada, including Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Isl; as far south as W North Carolina and NE Arkansas; outlying populations in SW Kansas, W Nebraska, and the Dismal Swamp region of SE Virginia-NE North Carolina
Order/Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Synaptomys
Specific Epithet
cooperi
Photographer
AV Linzey