Beringian lemming

Species of rodent

Beringian lemming

Illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Rodentia
Family:  | Cricetidae
Subfamily:  | Arvicolinae
Genus:  | Lemmus
Species:  |

L. nigripes

Binomial name
Lemmus nigripes

(F. W. True, 1894)

The Beringian lemming or Beringian brown lemming (Lemmus nigripes) is a species of lemming found in Russia and North America.

## Taxonomy

[edit]

It was formerly considered conspecific with the Canadian lemming (L. trimucronatus) with both species being grouped together as the "North American brown lemming", but genetic studies have affirmed both as being distinct species from one another.[1]

## Distribution

[edit]

A lemming and a least auklet regard each other on St. George Island (Alaska).

This species is found on both sides of the Bering Sea, and its distribution roughly coincides with the former landmass of Beringia, which it likely inhabited prior to its partial submergence.[2]

In Siberia, it is found east of the Kolyma River (with the East Siberian lemming, L. paulus, being found west of the river) ranging throughout most of Chukotka, northern Magadan, and northern Kamchatka Krai. A disjunct population is also present in the southern Kamchatka Peninsula, which is otherwise inhabited only by L. paulus.[2]

In North America, it is found throughout most of the US state of Alaska (including many of the islands, such as St. Lawrence Island and Nunivak Island) and adjoining portions of Yukon, Canada, but it is not found south of the Alaska Range, where it is replaced by L. trimucronatus.[2]

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Lemmus nigripes (F. W. True, 1894)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
2. ^ a b c Spitsyn, Vitaly M.; Bolotov, Ivan N.; Kondakov, Alexander V.; Klass, Anna L.; Mizin, Ivan A.; Tomilova, Alena A.; Zubrii, Natalia A.; Gofarov, Mikhail Y. (2021-03-17). "A new Norwegian Lemming subspecies from Novaya Zemlya, Arctic Russia". Ecologica Montenegrina. 40: 93–117. doi:10.37828/em.2021.40.8. ISSN 2336-9744.

* v
* t
* e

Extant species of subfamily Arvicolinae

* Kingdom: Animalia
* Phylum: Chordata
* Class: Mammalia
* Infraclass: Eutheria
* Superorder: Euarchontoglires
* Order: Rodentia
* Family: Cricetidae

Arvicolini|

| Arvicola
(Water voles)|

* European water vole (A. amphibius)
* Southwestern water vole (A. sapidus)
* Montane water vole (A. scherman)

|

Microtini|

| Alexandromys|

* Clarke's vole (M. clarkei)
* Evorsk vole (M. evoronensis)
* Reed vole (M. fortis)
* Gerbe's vole (M. gerbei)
* Taiwan vole (M. kikuchii)
* Lacustrine vole (M. limnophilus)
* Maximowicz's vole (M. maximowiczii)
* Middendorff's vole (M. middendorffi)
* Mongolian vole (M. mongolicus)
* Japanese grass vole (M. montebelli)
* Muisk vole (M. mujanensis)
* Tundra vole (M. oeconomus)
* Sakhalin vole (M. sachalinensis)

|

Chionomys
(Snow voles)|

* Caucasian snow vole (C. gud)
* European snow vole (C. nivalis)
* Robert's snow vole (C. roberti)

Hyperacrius
(Voles from Pakistan)|

* True's vole (H. fertilis)
* Murree vole (H. wynnei)

Lasiopodomys|

* Brandt's vole (L. brandtii)
* Plateau vole (L. fuscus)
* Mandarin vole (L. mandarinus)

Lemmiscus|

* Sagebrush vole (L. curtatus)

Microtus
(Voles)|

* Subgenus Microtus: Field vole (M. agrestis)
* Anatolian vole (M. anatolicus)
* Common vole (M. arvalis)
* Cabrera's vole (M. cabrerae)
* Doğramaci's vole (M. dogramacii)
* Günther's vole (M. guentheri)
* Tien Shan vole (M. ilaeus)
* Persian vole (M. irani)
* Kerman vole (M. kermanensis)
* Southern vole (M. levis)
* Paradox vole (M. paradoxus)
* Qazvin vole (M. qazvinensis)
* Schidlovsky's vole (M. schidlovskii)
* Social vole (M. socialis)
* European pine vole (M. subterraneus)
* Transcaspian vole (M. transcaspicus)

* Subgenus Blanfordimys: Afghan vole (B. afghanus)
* Bucharian vole (B. bucharicus)
* Juniper vole (B. juldaschi)

* Subgenus Terricola: Bavarian pine vole (M. bavaricus)
* Calabria pine vole (M. brachycercus)
* Daghestan pine vole (M. daghestanicus)
* Mediterranean pine vole (M. duodecimcostatus)
* Felten's vole (M. felteni)
* Liechtenstein's pine vole (M. liechtensteini)
* Lusitanian pine vole (M. lusitanicus)
* Major's pine vole (M. majori)
* Alpine pine vole (M. multiplex)
* Savi's pine vole (M. savii)
* Tatra pine vole (M. tatricus)
* Thomas's pine vole (M. thomasi)

* Subgenus Mynomes: Beach Vole (M. breweri)
* Gray-tailed vole (M. canicaudus)
* Montane vole (M. montanus)
* Creeping vole (M. oregoni)
* Meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus)
* Townsend's vole (M. townsendii)

* Subgenus Pitymys: Guatemalan vole (M. guatemalensis)
* Tarabundí vole (M. oaxacensis)
* Woodland Vole (M. pinetorum)
* Jalapan pine vole (M. quasiater)

* Subgenus Pedomys: Prairie vole (M. ochrogaster)

* Subgenus Hyrcanicola: Schelkovnikov's pine vole (M. schelkovnikovi)

* incertae sedis: Insular vole (M. abbreviatus)
* California vole (M. californicus)
* Rock vole (M. chrotorrhinus)
* Long-tailed vole (M. longicaudus)
* Mexican vole (M. mexicanus)
* Singing vole (M. miurus)
* Water vole (M. richardsoni)
* Zempoaltépec vole (M. umbrosus)
* Taiga vole (M. xanthognathus)

Neodon
(Mountain voles)|

* Forrest's mountain vole (N. forresti)
* Chinese scrub vole (N. irene)
* Linzhi mountain vole (N. linzhiensis)
* Sikkim mountain vole (N. sikimensis)
* Blyth's vole (N. leucurus)

Proedromys|

* Duke of Bedford's vole (P. bedfordi)
* P. liangshanensis

Stenocranius|

* Narrow-headed vole (S. gregalis)
* Radde's vole (S. raddei)

Volemys|

* Szechuan vole (V. millicens)
* Marie's vole (V. musseri)

Dicrostonychini
(Collared lemmings)|

| Dicrostonyx|

* Northern collared lemming (D. groenlandicus)
* Ungava collared lemming (D. hudsonius)
* Nelson's collared lemming (D. nelsoni)
* Ogilvie Mountains collared lemming (D. nunatakensis)
* Richardson's collared lemming (D. richardsoni)
* Arctic lemming (D. torquatus)
* Unalaska collared lemming (D. unalascensis)

|

Ellobiusini
(mole voles)|

| Ellobius
(Mole voles)|

* Alai mole vole (E. alaicus)
* Southern mole vole (E. fuscocapillus)
* Transcaucasian mole vole (E. lutescens)
* Northern mole vole (E. talpinus)
* Zaisan mole vole (E. tancrei)

|

Lagurini
(Steppe lemmings)|

| Eolagurus|

* Yellow steppe lemming (E. luteus)
* Przewalski's steppe lemming (E. przewalskii)

|

Lagurus|

* Steppe lemming (L. lagurus)

Lemmini
(Lemmings)|

| Lemmus
(True lemmings)|

* Amur lemming (L. amurensis)
* Norway lemming (L. lemmus)
* Beringian lemming (L. nigripes)
* Wrangel Island lemming (L. paulus)
* Siberian brown lemming (L. sibiricus)
* North American brown lemming (L. trimucronatus)

|

Myopus|

* Wood lemming (M. schisticolor)

Synaptomys
(Bog lemmings)|

* Northern bog lemming (S. borealis)
* Southern bog lemming (S. cooperi)

Clethrionomyini|

| Alticola
(Voles from
Central Asia)|

* Subgenus Alticola: White-tailed mountain vole (A. albicauda)
* Silver mountain vole (A. argentatus)
* Gobi Altai mountain vole (A. barakshin)
* Central Kashmir vole (A. montosa)
* Royle's mountain vole (A. roylei)
* Mongolian silver vole (A. semicanus)
* Stolička's mountain vole (A. stoliczkanus)
* Tuva silver vole (A. tuvinicus)

* Subgenus Aschizomys: Lemming vole (A. lemminus)
* Large-eared vole (A. macrotis)
* Lake Baikal mountain vole (A. olchonensis)

* Subgenus Platycranius: Flat-headed vole (A. strelzowi)

|

Caryomys|

* Ganzu vole (C. eva)
* Kolan vole (C. inez)

Eothenomys
(Voles from
East Asia)|

* Kachin red-backed vole (E. cachinus)
* Pratt's vole (E. chinensis)
* Southwest China vole (E. custos)
* Père David's vole (E. melanogaster)
* Yunnan red-backed vole (E. miletus)
* Chaotung vole (E. olitor)
* Yulungshan vole (E. proditor)
* Ward's red-backed vole (E. wardi)

Clethrionomys
(some Red-backed
voles)|

* Western red-backed vole (C. californicus)
* Tien Shan red-backed vole (C. centralis)
* Southern red-backed Vole (C. gapperi)
* Bank vole (C. glareolus)
* Imaizumi's red-backed vole (C. imaizumii)
* Northern red-backed vole (C. rutilus)
* Shansei vole (C. shanseius)

Craseomys
(other Red-backed
voles)|

* Japanese red-backed vole (C. andersoni)
* Royal vole (C. regulus)
* Hokkaido red-backed vole (C. rex)
* Grey red-backed vole (C. rufocanus)
* Smith's vole (C. smithii)

Ondatrini|

| Neofiber|

* Round-tailed muskrat (N. alleni)

|

Ondatra|

* Muskrat (O. zibethicus)

Pliomyini|

| Dinaromys|

* Balkan snow vole (D. bogdanovi)

|

Pliophenacomyini|

| Arborimus
(Tree voles)|

* White-footed vole (A. albipes)
* Red tree vole (A. longicaudus)
* California red tree mouse (A. pomo)

|

Phenacomys
(Heather voles)|

* Western heather vole (P. intermedius)
* Eastern heather vole (P. ungava)

Prometheomyini|

| Prometheomys|

* Long-clawed mole vole (P. schaposchnikowi)

|

Taxon identifiers

Lemmus nigripes|

* Wikidata: Q108479794
* CoL: 3T4QY
* GBIF: 5219838
* ITIS: 180321
* MDD: 1006571

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template