Lemmini

Lemmini Temporal range: Pliocene to present, 4.2–0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Tribe:	Lemmini Simpson, 1945
Genera
Lemmus Myopus Synaptomys
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

• Genus Lemmus - true lemmings
  • Amur lemming (L. amurensis)
  • Norway lemming (L. lemmus)
  • Beringian lemming (L. nigripes)
  • East Siberian lemming (L. paulus)
  • West Siberian lemming (L. sibiricus)
  • North American brown lemming (L. trimucronatus)
• Genus Myopus - wood lemming
  • Wood lemming (M. schisticolor)
• Genus Synaptomys - bog lemmings
  • Northern bog lemming (S. borealis)
  • Southern bog lemming (S. cooperi)

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]

References

1. Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651212 , retrieved 2021-12-12
2. "Mammal Species of the World - Browse: Synaptomys". www.departments.bucknell.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
3. Abramson, Natalia I.; Bodrov, Semyon Yu; Bondareva, Olga V.; Genelt-Yanovskiy, Evgeny A.; Petrova, Tatyana V. (2021-11-19). "A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of voles and lemmings (Rodentia: Arvicolinae): Evolutionary and taxonomic implications". PLOS ONE. 16 (11) e0248198. Bibcode:2021PLoSO..1648198A. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248198 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   8604340 . PMID   34797834.