True lemming

Genus of rodents

True lemmings

Temporal range: Pleistocene \- Recent

Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Rodentia
Family:  | Cricetidae
Subfamily:  | Arvicolinae
Tribe:  | Lemmini
Genus:  | Lemmus
Link, 1795
Type species
Lemmus lemmus

Species

L. amurensis
L. lemmus
L. nigripes
L. paulus
L. sibiricus
L. trimucronatus

Synonyms

Myodes[1]

The genus Lemmus contains several species of lemming sometimes referred to as the true lemmings. They are distributed throughout the Holarctic, particularly in the Palearctic.

## Description

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Head and body is 10-13.5 cm, and tail length is 18–26 mm. Weight ranges from 40-112 g. They are grey or brown. Unlike the collared lemmings, their coats do not change color in winter. They stay brown and grey.

## Natural history

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These lemmings are found predominantly in tundra or high elevations. Populations can fluctuate widely and mass migrations do take place. This mass migration is probably the source of the myth that lemmings commit mass suicide. These intense population booms appear to be most common in the northern part of its range (such as Lapland).

Gestation is 16–23 days. Litters are 1-13 (7 average). Young are sexually mature after 14 days. When conditions are favorable, these demographic parameters allow for a veritable explosion in population size.

## Species

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* Amur lemming \- (Lemmus amurensis)
* Norway lemming \- (Lemmus lemmus)
* Beringian lemming \- (Lemmus nigripes)
* East Siberian lemming \- (Lemmus paulus)
* West Siberian lemming \- (Lemmus sibiricus)
* Canadian lemming \- (Lemmus trimucronatus)

## References

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1. ^ Krystufek, B. (2019). "Back to the future: the proper name for red-backed voles is Clethrionomys Tilesius and not Myodes Pallas". Mammalia. 84 (2). doi:10.1515/mammalia-2019-0067.

* Duff, A. and A. Lawson. 2004. Mammals of the World A Checklist. New Haven, Yale University Press.
* Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
* Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, Vol. 2. Johns Hopkins University Press, London.

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Lagurini
(Steppe lemmings)|

| Eolagurus|

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Ondatra|

* Muskrat (O. zibethicus)

Pliomyini|

| Dinaromys|

* Balkan snow vole (D. bogdanovi)

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Pliophenacomyini|

| Arborimus
(Tree voles)|

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

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Phenacomys
(Heather voles)|

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

Prometheomyini|

| Prometheomys|

* Long-clawed mole vole (P. schaposchnikowi)

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Taxon identifiers

Lemmus|

* Wikidata: Q525589
* Wikispecies: Lemmus
* ADW: Lemmus
* BOLD: 64754
* CoL: 5C5M
* EoL: 42336
* EPPO: 1LEMMG
* Fauna Europaea: 305626
* Fauna Europaea (new): d2e7cbf5-314b-43dc-b11e-5a5e69e7c147
* GBIF: 5219834
* iNaturalist: 45081
* ITIS: 970222
* MSW: 13000231
* NCBI: 79948
* Open Tree of Life: 934730
* Paleobiology Database: 41800

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