Lemmini
Tribe of lemmings
title: "Lemmini" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["arvicolinae", "mammal-tribes", "taxa-named-by-george-gaylord-simpson"] description: "Tribe of lemmings" topic_path: "general/arvicolinae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmini" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Tribe of lemmings ::
| fossil_range = Pliocene to present, | image = Berglemming im Padjelanta.jpg | image_caption = Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus) | taxon = Lemmini | authority = Simpson, 1945 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = Lemmus
Synaptomys | synonyms = Synaptomyini Koenigswald and L. D. Martin, 1984
Lemmini is a tribe of lemmings in the subfamily Arvicolinae. Species in this tribe are:
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.
A 2021 phylogenetic study using mtDNA recovered Lemmini as sister to all other lineages of Arvicolinae, diverging during the late Miocene, about 8 million years ago.
References
References
- Database, Mammal Diversity. (2021-11-06). "Mammal Diversity Database".
- "Mammal Species of the World - Browse: Synaptomys".
- (2021-11-19). "A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of voles and lemmings (Rodentia: Arvicolinae): Evolutionary and taxonomic implications". PLOS ONE.
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