Lemmus trimucronatus

(J. Richardson, 1825)

Nearctic Brown Lemming

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Arvicolinae
Tribe : Lemmini
Genus : Lemmus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

<i>In</i>Parry, Journal of a second voyage …, vol. App., 309

Original name as described

Arvicola trimucronata

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1842.10.7.13

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Point Lake, District of Mackenzie, Canada.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

United States · Canada

Subregion distribution

USA(AK)

Taxonomy notes

previously included L. trimucronatus

Taxonomy notes citation

Spitsyn, V. M., Bolotov, I. N., Kondakov, A. V., Klass, A. L., Mizin, I. A., Tomilova, A. A., Zubrii, N. A., & Gofarov, M. Y. (2021). A new Norwegian Lemming subspecies from Novaya Zemlya, Arctic Russia. Ecologica Montenegrina, 40, 93-117.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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