Lemmus sibiricus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Lemmus
Lemmus sibiricus

description: <i>Lemmus sibiricus</i> (Kerr, 1792). Anim. Kingdom, p. 241. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., Yamalo-Nenetsk. Nats. Okr., between Polar Ural Mtns, and lower course of Ob River. DISTRIBUTION: Siberian tundra from White Sea to Chukotka (N. E. Siberia) and Kamchatka; St. George Isl. (Pribilofs) and Nunivak Isl. (Bering Sea); W. Alaska east to Baffin Isl. and Hudson Bay, south in the Rocky Mtns, to C. British Columbia (Canada). COMMENT: <i>L. obensis</i> is a junior synonym <i>(</i> <i>L. obensis</i> is retained as a specific name for <i>sibiricus</i> by Gromov <i>et al.,</i> 1963, [Mammal Fauna of the U.S. S.R.], 1:1-640, and Flint <i>et al.,</i> 1965, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R.], 438 pp.); includes <i>amurensis, nigripes,</i> and <i>trimucronatus;</i> see Rausch, 1953, Arctic, 6:91 -148, Krivosheev, 1971, <i>in</i> Tavrovskii <i>et al.,</i> [Mammals of Yakutiya], Rausch and Rausch, 1975, Z. Saugetierk., 40:8-34, and Curry-Lindahl, 1980, Der Berglemming <i>Lemmus lemmus,</i> 140 pp.; for alternative treatment see Corbet, 1978:97, and Sidorowicz, 1964, Acta Theriol., 8:217-226. <i>L. amurensis</i> was retained as a distinct species by Ognev, 1948, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R. and Adj. Count.], vol. 6, Rodents, English Trans., 1963, Gromov <i>et al.,</i> 1963, [Mammal Fauna of the U.S. S.R.], 1:1-640, Flint <i>et al.,</i> 1965, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R.], 438 pp., and Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:196; while Krivosheev and Rossolimo, 1966, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 71:5- 17, and Rubina <i>et al.,</i> 1973, <i>in</i> Kontrimavichus, ed., [Biol. Probl. North], 2:77-80, expressed uncertainty about its taxonomic status. Khvorostyanskaya, 1980:40, <i>in</i> Panteleev, ed., [Rodents. Materials All-Union Conf.], Nauka, Moscow, 471 pp., Chernyavskii, 1980, <i>op cit.</i> p. 131, and Pokrovskii and Makaranets, 1980, <i>op cit.</i> p. 259, provided chromosomal and breeding data supporting specific distinctness. RSH, ML] and OLR treat <i>amurensis</i> as distinct. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008079003001 as <i>L. sibiricus.</i> 5301410008079002001 as <i>L. nigripes.</i>
description: Published as part of <i>James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman &amp; James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. &amp; The Association of Systematics Collections</i> on page 489, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
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