Lemmus Link, 1795 . Beitr. Naturgesch., 1 (2):75.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus lemmus Linnaeus, 1758 .

SYNONYMS: Brachyurus, Hypudaeus, Lemnus, Myodes .

COMMENTS: Nominative genus of Miller's (1896) classic tribe Lemmi, then including Dicrostonyx (see that account). Distinctiveness still recognized as the tribe Lemmini, including Myopus and Synaptomys, a clade believed to represent an early line of arvicoline evolution (Carleton, 1981; Chaline and Graf, 1988; Graf, 1982; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Hinton, 1926; Hooper and Hart, 1962; Koenigswald, 1980). Fossil history reviewed by Koenigswald and Martin (1984) and zoogeography discussed by Rausch and Rausch (1975b). Old World taxa reviewed by Corbet (1978c, 1984), Gromov and Polyakov (1977), and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Chromosomal information summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a). Also see account of Myopus .