Order Rodentia (Part 4) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 477 504 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353034 4170533d-8435-4cb4-93df-e7f9489eb798 0-89327-235-3 7353034 Lemmus sibiricus (Kerr, 1792) . Anim. Kingdom, p. 241 . TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R ., R .S.F.S. R ., Yamalo-Nenetsk. Nats. Okr., between Polar Ural Mtns, and lower course of Ob River . DISTRIBUTION: Siberian tundra from White Sea to Chukotka (N. E. Siberia) and Kamchatka; St. George Isl. (Pribilofs) and Nunivak Isl. (Bering Sea); W. Alaska east to Baffin Isl. and Hudson Bay, south in the Rocky Mtns, to C. British Columbia ( Canada ). COMMENT: L. obensis is a junior synonym ( L. obensis is retained as a specific name for sibiricus by Gromov et al., 1963 , [Mammal Fauna of the U.S. S.R.], 1:1-640, and Flint et al., 1965, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R.], 438 pp.); includes amurensis , nigripes , and trimucronatus; see Rausch, 1953 , Arctic, 6:91 -148, Krivosheev, 1971, in Tavrovskii et al., [Mammals of Yakutiya], Rausch and Rausch, 1975, Z. Saugetierk., 40:8-34, and Curry-Lindahl, 1980, Der Berglemming Lemmus lemmus , 140 pp.; for alternative treatment see Corbet, 1978:97, and Sidorowicz, 1964, Acta Theriol., 8:217-226. L. amurensis was retained as a distinct species by Ognev, 1948 , [Mammals of the U.S. S.R. and Adj. Count.], vol. 6, Rodents, English Trans., 1963, Gromov et al., 1963 , [Mammal Fauna of the U.S. S.R.], 1:1-640, Flint et al., 1965, [Mammals of the U.S. S.R.], 438 pp., and Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:196 ; while Krivosheev and Rossolimo, 1966, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 71:5- 17, and Rubina et al., 1973, in Kontrimavichus, ed., [Biol. Probl. North], 2:77-80, expressed uncertainty about its taxonomic status. Khvorostyanskaya, 1980:40, in Panteleev, ed., [Rodents. Materials All-Union Conf.], Nauka, Moscow, 471 pp., Chernyavskii, 1980, op cit. p. 131, and Pokrovskii and Makaranets, 1980, op cit. p. 259, provided chromosomal and breeding data supporting specific distinctness. RSH, ML] and OLR treat amurensis as distinct. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008079003001 as L. sibiricus . 5301410008079002001 as L. nigripes .