Lemmus lemmus (Linnaeus, 1758)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 477-504 : 488

Lemmus lemmus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:59.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Lappmark .

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Scandinavia and tundra from Lapland to White Sea ( U.S. S.R).

COMMENT: Hybridization with sibiricus produced sterile male offspring; see Rausch, 1977, in Sokolov, ed., [Adv. Mod. TherioL], Acad. Sci. U.S. S.R., "Nauka," Moscow, pp. 162- 167. Also see Krivosheev and Rossolimo, 1966, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 71:5- 17, Rausch and Rausch, 1975, Z. Saugetierk., 40:8-34, and Curry-Lindahl, 1980, Der Berglemming Lemmus lemmus , 140 pp.; but see Sidorowicz, 1960, 1964, Acta TherioL, 4:53-80, 8:217-226. Type locality, Lappmark, (sensu Linnaeus) means mountains of Swedish Lapland (KCL).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008079001001.