Lemmus sibiricus
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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.
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Biodiversity
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.