| Lemmini Temporal range: Pliocene to present,  | |
|---|---|
|   | |
| Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus) | |
| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Mammalia | 
| Order: | Rodentia | 
| Family: | Cricetidae | 
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae | 
| Tribe: | Lemmini Simpson, 1945 | 
| Genera | |
| Synonyms | |
| Synaptomyini Koenigswald and L. D. Martin, 1984 | |
Lemmini is a tribe of lemmings in the subfamily Arvicolinae. Species in this tribe are: [1]
Tribe Lemmini
The fossil taxa Mictomys , Tobienia (both thought to be allied with Synaptomys), and Plioctomys (thought to be allied with Lemmus and Myopus) are also thought to belong to this group. [2]
A 2021 phylogenetic study using mtDNA recovered Lemmini as being the most basal clade of the Arvicolinae, diverging during the late Miocene, about 8 million years ago. [3]