Lemmus sibiricus (Kerr, 1792)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 517

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Lemmus sibiricus (Kerr, 1792)
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Lemmus sibiricus (Kerr, 1792) . In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, p. 241.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Yamalo-Nenetskaya Nats. Okr., between Polar Ural Mtns and lower course of Ob River .

DISTRIBUTION: Holarctic tundra landscapes: in Palearctic, from White Sea, W Russia, to Chukotski Peninsula, NE Siberia, and Kamchatka; including Nunivak and St. George islands in the Bering Sea; in Nearctic, from W Alaska east to Baffin Island and Hudson Bay, and south in the Rocky Mtns to C British Columbia, Canada.

SYNONYMS: alascensis , bungei, chrysogaster , flavescens , harroldi , helvolus , iterator , kittlitzi , minor , minusculus , nigripes , novosibiricus , obensis , paulus , phaiocephalus, portenkoi , subarticus, trimucronatus , xanthotrichus , yukonensis .

COMMENTS: North American races revised, as L. trimucronatus , by Davis (1944) and retained as such by Hall and Cockrum (1953) and Hall and Kelson (1959). Rausch (1953) proposed the synonymy of trimucronatus and nigripes under Old World L. sibiricus , a taxonomic arrangement elaborated by Rausch and Rausch (19751?) and maintained in subsequent faunal works ( Banfield, 1974; Hall, 1981; Jones et al., 1986). Gileva (1983) and Gileva et al. (1984) believed that the cytogenetic peculiarities of chrysogaster confirm its independence as a species relative to L. amurensis , L. lemmus , and L. sibiricus , and suggested it may be conspecific with North American L. trimucronatus . The sample they identified as chrysogaster , however, comes from the Chukotski Peninsula on the coast of the East Siberian Sea, not from the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea, the type locality of chrysogaster . Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) retained, with reservation, chrysogaster in the synonymy of L. sibiricus pending further study and accurate identification of lemmings from the Chukotski Peninsula. Corbet and Hill (1991) continued to recognize the St. George Island form nigripes as a species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Lemmus

Loc

Lemmus sibiricus (Kerr, 1792)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993
1993
Loc

Lemmus sibiricus (Kerr, 1792)

Kerr 1792: 241
1792
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