Lagurus (rodent)
Genus of rodents
Lagurus Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent | |
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Steppe lemming (Lagurus lagurus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
Tribe: | Lagurini |
Genus: | Lagurus Gloger, 1841 |
Type species | |
Mus lagurus Pallas, 1773 | |
Species | |
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Lagurus is a genus in the subfamily Arvicolinae (voles, lemmings, and related species). Lagurus includes a single living species, the steppe lemming (Lagurus lagurus) of central Eurasia.[1] The North American sagebrush vole (Lemmiscus curtatus) has also been included in Lagurus, but is likely not closely related.[2] The earliest fossils of Lagurus, allocated to Lagurus arankae, appear in the Late Pliocene. Two other fossil species, Lagurus pannonicus and Lagurus transiens, are thought to be part of a lineage that led to the living steppe lemming.[3]
References
Literature cited
- Chaline, J., Brunet-Lecomte, P., Montuire, S., Viriot, L. and Courant, F. 1999. Anatomy of the arvicoline radiation (Rodentia): palaeogeographical, palaeoecological history and evolutionary data. Annales Zoologici Fennici 36:239–267.
- McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6
- Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
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Extant species of subfamily Arvicolinae
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Eutheria
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires
- Order: Rodentia
- Family: Cricetidae
Arvicola (Water voles) |
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Alexandromys |
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Chionomys (Snow voles) |
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Hyperacrius (Voles from Pakistan) |
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Lasiopodomys |
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Lemmiscus |
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Microtus (Voles) |
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Neodon (Mountain voles) |
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Proedromys |
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Stenocranius |
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Volemys |
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(Collared lemmings)
Dicrostonyx |
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(mole voles)
Ellobius (Mole voles) |
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(Steppe lemmings)
Eolagurus |
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Lagurus |
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(Lemmings)
Lemmus (True lemmings) |
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Myopus |
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Synaptomys (Bog lemmings) |
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Alticola (Voles from Central Asia) |
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Caryomys |
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Eothenomys (Voles from East Asia) |
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Clethrionomys (some Red-backed voles) |
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Craseomys (other Red-backed voles) |
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Neofiber |
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Ondatra |
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Dinaromys |
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Arborimus (Tree voles) |
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Phenacomys (Heather voles) |
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Prometheomys |
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