Lemmus sibiricus
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Lemmus
Lemmus sibiricus

description: <i>Lemmus sibiricus</i> (Kerr, 1792). <i>In</i> 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: <i>alascensis, bungei, chrysogaster, flavescens, harroldi, helvolus, iterator, kittlitzi, minor, minusculus, nigripes, novosibiricus, obensis, paulus, phaiocephalus, portenkoi, subarticus, trimucronatus, xanthotrichus, yukonensis.</i> COMMENTS: North American races revised, as <i>L. trimucronatus,</i> by Davis (1944) and retained as such by Hall and Cockrum (1953) and Hall and Kelson (1959). Rausch (1953) proposed the synonymy of <i>trimucronatus</i> and <i>nigripes</i> under Old World <i>L. sibiricus,</i> 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 <i>chrysogaster</i> confirm its independence as a species relative to <i>L. amurensis,</i> <i>L. lemmus,</i> and L. <i>sibiricus</i> <i>,</i> and suggested it may be conspecific with North American L. <i>trimucronatus</i> <i>.</i> The sample they identified as <i>chrysogaster,</i> 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 <i>chrysogaster.</i> Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) retained, with reservation, <i>chrysogaster</i> in the synonymy of <i>L. sibiricus</i> pending further study and accurate identification of lemmings from the Chukotski Peninsula. Corbet and Hill (1991) continued to recognize the St. George Island form <i>nigripes</i> as a species.
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 517, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Davis, W. B. 1944. Geographic variation in brown lemmings (Genus Lemmus). Murrelet, 25: 19 - 25.", "Hall, E. R., and E. L. Cockrum. 1953. A synopsis of the North American microtine rodents. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 5: 373 - 498.", "Hall, E. R., and K. R. Kelson. 1959. The mammals of North America. Ronald Press Co., New York, 1: 1 - 546; 2: 547 - 1083 + 79.", "Rausch, R. L. 1953. On the status of some Arctic mammals. Arctic (Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America), 6: 91 - 148.", "Banfield, A. W. F. 1974. The mammals of Canada. The University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 438 pp.", "Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.", "Jones, J. K., Jr., D. C. Carter, H. H. Genoways, R. S. Hoffman, D. W. Rice, and C. Jones. 1986. Revised checklist of North American mammals north of Mexico. Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 107: 1 - 22.", "Gileva, E. A., I. A. Kuznetsova, M. I. Cheprakov. 1984. [Chromosome sets and taxonomy of true lemmings of the genus Lemmus]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 63: 105 - 114 (in Russian).", "Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp."]}