Alticola lemminus

(G. S. Miller, 1898)

Lemming Mountain Vole

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Arvicolinae
Tribe : Clethrionomyini
Genus : Alticola
Subgenus : Aschizomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Miller, G.S., Jr. 1898-10-15. Description of a new genus and species of microtine rodent from Siberia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 50:368-371.

Original name as described

Aschizomys lemminus

Other common names

Lemming Vole

Type material

USNM:MAMM:9911 (= USNM:MAMM:A37299)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Kelsey Station, Plover Bay, Bering Strait, [Chukotskiy], Siberia [Russia]."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia

Taxonomy notes

has been included under either Aschizomys (along with A. macrotis) or Alticola; the most recent molecular studies using wider gene sets place the species under Alticola, however, this study does not included Clethrionomys in the molecular analysis and further studies investigating all the species within these genera is needed to fully resolve this species generic position

Taxonomy notes citation

Wilson D.E., Lacher T.E., Mittermeier R.A. 2017. Handbook of the mammals of the world. Vol. 7. Rodents II. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. · Bodrov, S. Y., Vasiljeva, V. K., Okhlopkov, I. M., Mamayev, N. V., Zakharov, E. S., Oleinikov, A. Y., ... & Abramson, N. I. (2020). Evolutionary history of mountain voles of the subgenus Aschizomys (Cricetidae, Rodentia), inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Integrative Zoology, 15(3), 187-201.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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