Lemmus sibiricus

• Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Arvicolidae; Lemmus; Lemmus sibiricus; Baffin; Bering Sea; Chukotka; Hudson Bay; Kamchatka; Lemmus lemmus; Nunivak; ob river; Tundra; White Sea; Yakutiya; Alaska; Berglemming; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203942; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF6D11FFAB042B6E95FE16C456F996

Lemmus sibiricus (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: L. obensis is a junior synonym ( L. obensis is retained as a specific name for sibiricus by Gromov et al., 1963, [Mammal Fauna of the U.S. S.R.], 1:1-640, and Flint et al., 1965, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R.], 438 pp.); includes amurensis, nigripes, and trimucronatus; see Rausch, 1953, Arctic, 6:91 -148, Krivosheev, 1971, in Tavrovskii et al., [Mammals of Yakutiya], Rausch and Rausch, 1975, Z. Saugetierk., 40:8-34, and Curry-Lindahl, 1980, Der Berglemming Lemmus lemmus, 140 pp.; for alternative treatment see Corbet, 1978:97, and Sidorowicz, 1964, Acta Theriol., 8:217-226. L. amurensis 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 et al., 1963, [Mammal Fauna of the U.S. S.R.], 1:1-640, Flint et al., 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 et al., 1973, in Kontrimavichus, ed., [Biol. Probl. North], 2:77-80, expressed uncertainty about its taxonomic status. Khvorostyanskaya, 1980:40, in Panteleev, ed., [Rodents. Materials All-Union Conf.], Nauka, Moscow, 471 pp., Chernyavskii, 1980, op cit. p. 131, and Pokrovskii and Makaranets, 1980, op cit. p. 259, provided chromosomal and breeding data supporting specific distinctness. RSH, ML] and OLR treat amurensis as distinct. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008079003001 as L. sibiricus. 5301410008079002001 as L. nigripes. Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part ...