Biology:Lemmini

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Short description: Tribe of lemmings

Lemmini
Temporal range: Pliocene to present, 4.2–0 Ma
Berglemming im Padjelanta.jpg
Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Tribe: Lemmini
Simpson, 1945
Genera

Lemmus
Myopus
Synaptomys

Synonyms

Synaptomyini Koenigswald and L. D. Martin, 1984

Lemmini is a tribe of lemmings in the subfamily Arvicolinae. Species in this tribe are:[1]

Tribe Lemmini

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.[2]

A 2021 phylogenetic study using mtDNA recovered Lemmini as being the most basal clade of the Arvicolinae, diverging during the late Miocene, about 8 million years ago.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q234150 entry