Lemmiscus Thomas 1912

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 985

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11324160

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Lemmiscus Thomas 1912
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Lemmiscus Thomas 1912 View in CoL

Lemmiscus Thomas 1912 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 9: 401.

Type Species: Arvicola curtata Cope 1868

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Lemmiscus curtatus (Cope 1868)

Discussion: Arvicolini. Named as a subgenus of Lagurus to segregate New World sagebrush voles from Old World steppe voles. Davis (1939) underscored the morphological separation between New and Old World forms and raised Lemmiscus to a genus, a view endorsed by Carleton’s (1981) study of gastric anatomy. Subsequent faunal studies and checklists have variously listed Lemmiscus as a genus ( Carleton and Musser, 1984; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Musser and Carleton, 1993) or as a subgenus of Lagurus ( Hall, 1981; Honacki et al., 1982). Certain morphological traits associate Lemmiscus with Microtus ( Carleton, 1981; Davis, 1939), a relationship supported by phylogenetic evaluation of long repetitive DNA segments ( Modi, 1996); chromosomal banding patterns provided little resolution of its affinity ( Modi, 1987). Some paleontologists continue to view New World sagebrush voles as lagurines that migrated to North America in the Pleistocene ( Chaline, 1985; Chaline et al., 1999); Repenning (1992), however, considered the dental similarities between Lemmiscus and Microtus sufficiently impressive to warrant their joint placement in a tribe Microtini . Taxonomic representation necessary to discriminate the migration scenario from autochthonous differentiation in the New World has yet to be realized in recent molecular studies.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Loc

Lemmiscus Thomas 1912

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Lemmiscus

Thomas 1912: 401
1912
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