Lemmini

Lemmini is a tribe of lemmings in the subfamily Arvicolinae. Species in this tribe are:^[1]

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
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

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.