Bog lemming

Genus of mammals

Bog lemmings
Temporal range: Early Pliocene - recent
Southern bog lemming
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Tribe: Lemmini
Genus: Synaptomys
Baird, 1857
Type species
Synaptomys cooperi
Species

Synaptomys borealis
Synaptomys cooperi
†Synaptomys australis

Synaptomys is a genus of North American lemmings. These animals live in wet forested and open areas. They are small, cylindrical rodents with large heads and short ears, legs, and tails. They eat green vegetation such as grasses and sedges. They are often found in colonies.

Systematics

The genus Synaptomys comprises two extant species and 10 extinct species. S. borealis is sometimes placed in the genus Mictomys.

Extant species

Extinct species

  • Florida bog lemming (S. australis Simpson 1928)[4]
  • Bunker's bog lemming (S. bunkeri Hibbard 1939)[3][4]
  • Morgan's bog lemming (S. morgani Martin et al. 2003)[3]

A number of other fossil species have been included here but have since been transferred to other genera, such as Mictomys[5] and Praesynaptomys.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Synaptomys borealis - Northern Bog Lemming". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Synaptomys cooperi - Southern Bog Lemming". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Synaptomys". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  4. ^ a b Kurtén, Björn; Elaine Anderson (1980). Pleistocene Mammals of North America. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-231-03733-3. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Mictomys". Fossilworks.
  6. ^ "Praesynaptomys". Fossilworks.

Further reading

  • Reichel, J. (1996). Annotated Bibliography of Bog Lemmings. Montana Natural Heritage Program. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.45808.
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Extant species of subfamily Arvicolinae
Arvicolini
Arvicola
(Water voles)
  • European water vole (A. amphibius)
  • Southwestern water vole (A. sapidus)
  • Montane water vole (A. scherman)
Microtini
Alexandromys
  • Clarke's vole (M. clarkei)
  • Evorsk vole (M. evoronensis)
  • Reed vole (M. fortis)
  • Gerbe's vole (M. gerbei)
  • Taiwan vole (M. kikuchii)
  • Lacustrine vole (M. limnophilus)
  • Maximowicz's vole (M. maximowiczii)
  • Middendorff's vole (M. middendorffi)
  • Mongolian vole (M. mongolicus)
  • Japanese grass vole (M. montebelli)
  • Muisk vole (M. mujanensis)
  • Tundra vole (M. oeconomus)
  • Sakhalin vole (M. sachalinensis)
Chionomys
(Snow voles)
  • Caucasian snow vole (C. gud)
  • European snow vole (C. nivalis)
  • Robert's snow vole (C. roberti)
Hyperacrius
(Voles from Pakistan)
  • True's vole (H. fertilis)
  • Murree vole (H. wynnei)
Lasiopodomys
  • Brandt's vole (L. brandtii)
  • Plateau vole (L. fuscus)
  • Mandarin vole (L. mandarinus)
Lemmiscus
  • Sagebrush vole (L. curtatus)
Microtus
(Voles)
  • Subgenus Microtus: Field vole (M. agrestis)
  • Anatolian vole (M. anatolicus)
  • Common vole (M. arvalis)
  • Cabrera's vole (M. cabrerae)
  • Doğramaci's vole (M. dogramacii)
  • Günther's vole (M. guentheri)
  • Tien Shan vole (M. ilaeus)
  • Persian vole (M. irani)
  • Kerman vole (M. kermanensis)
  • Southern vole (M. levis)
  • Paradox vole (M. paradoxus)
  • Qazvin vole (M. qazvinensis)
  • Schidlovsky's vole (M. schidlovskii)
  • Social vole (M. socialis)
  • European pine vole (M. subterraneus)
  • Transcaspian vole (M. transcaspicus)
  • Subgenus Blanfordimys: Afghan vole (B. afghanus)
  • Bucharian vole (B. bucharicus)
  • Juniper vole (B. juldaschi)
  • Subgenus Terricola: Bavarian pine vole (M. bavaricus)
  • Calabria pine vole (M. brachycercus)
  • Daghestan pine vole (M. daghestanicus)
  • Mediterranean pine vole (M. duodecimcostatus)
  • Felten's vole (M. felteni)
  • Liechtenstein's pine vole (M. liechtensteini)
  • Lusitanian pine vole (M. lusitanicus)
  • Major's pine vole (M. majori)
  • Alpine pine vole (M. multiplex)
  • Savi's pine vole (M. savii)
  • Tatra pine vole (M. tatricus)
  • Thomas's pine vole (M. thomasi)
  • Subgenus Mynomes: Beach Vole (M. breweri)
  • Gray-tailed vole (M. canicaudus)
  • Montane vole (M. montanus)
  • Creeping vole (M. oregoni)
  • Meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus)
  • Townsend's vole (M. townsendii)
  • Subgenus Pitymys: Guatemalan vole (M. guatemalensis)
  • Tarabundí vole (M. oaxacensis)
  • Woodland Vole (M. pinetorum)
  • Jalapan pine vole (M. quasiater)
  • Subgenus Pedomys: Prairie vole (M. ochrogaster)
  • Subgenus Hyrcanicola: Schelkovnikov's pine vole (M. schelkovnikovi)
  • incertae sedis: Insular vole (M. abbreviatus)
  • California vole (M. californicus)
  • Rock vole (M. chrotorrhinus)
  • Long-tailed vole (M. longicaudus)
  • Mexican vole (M. mexicanus)
  • Singing vole (M. miurus)
  • Water vole (M. richardsoni)
  • Zempoaltépec vole (M. umbrosus)
  • Taiga vole (M. xanthognathus)
Neodon
(Mountain voles)
  • Forrest's mountain vole (N. forresti)
  • Chinese scrub vole (N. irene)
  • Linzhi mountain vole (N. linzhiensis)
  • Sikkim mountain vole (N. sikimensis)
  • Blyth's vole (N. leucurus)
Proedromys
Stenocranius
  • Narrow-headed vole (S. gregalis)
  • Radde's vole (S. raddei)
Volemys
  • Szechuan vole (V. millicens)
  • Marie's vole (V. musseri)
Dicrostonychini
(Collared lemmings)
Dicrostonyx
  • Northern collared lemming (D. groenlandicus)
  • Ungava collared lemming (D. hudsonius)
  • Nelson's collared lemming (D. nelsoni)
  • Ogilvie Mountains collared lemming (D. nunatakensis)
  • Richardson's collared lemming (D. richardsoni)
  • Arctic lemming (D. torquatus)
  • Unalaska collared lemming (D. unalascensis)
Ellobiusini
(mole voles)
Ellobius
(Mole voles)
  • Alai mole vole (E. alaicus)
  • Southern mole vole (E. fuscocapillus)
  • Transcaucasian mole vole (E. lutescens)
  • Northern mole vole (E. talpinus)
  • Zaisan mole vole (E. tancrei)
Lagurini
(Steppe lemmings)
Eolagurus
  • Yellow steppe lemming (E. luteus)
  • Przewalski's steppe lemming (E. przewalskii)
Lagurus
  • Steppe lemming (L. lagurus)
Lemmini
(Lemmings)
Lemmus
(True lemmings)
  • Amur lemming (L. amurensis)
  • Norway lemming (L. lemmus)
  • Beringian lemming (L. nigripes)
  • Wrangel Island lemming (L. paulus)
  • Siberian brown lemming (L. sibiricus)
  • North American brown lemming (L. trimucronatus)
Myopus
  • Wood lemming (M. schisticolor)
Synaptomys
(Bog lemmings)
  • Northern bog lemming (S. borealis)
  • Southern bog lemming (S. cooperi)
Clethrionomyini
Alticola
(Voles from
Central Asia)
  • Subgenus Alticola: White-tailed mountain vole (A. albicauda)
  • Silver mountain vole (A. argentatus)
  • Gobi Altai mountain vole (A. barakshin)
  • Central Kashmir vole (A. montosa)
  • Royle's mountain vole (A. roylei)
  • Mongolian silver vole (A. semicanus)
  • Stolička's mountain vole (A. stoliczkanus)
  • Tuva silver vole (A. tuvinicus)
  • Subgenus Aschizomys: Lemming vole (A. lemminus)
  • Large-eared vole (A. macrotis)
  • Lake Baikal mountain vole (A. olchonensis)
  • Subgenus Platycranius: Flat-headed vole (A. strelzowi)
Caryomys
  • Ganzu vole (C. eva)
  • Kolan vole (C. inez)
Eothenomys
(Voles from
East Asia)
  • Kachin red-backed vole (E. cachinus)
  • Pratt's vole (E. chinensis)
  • Southwest China vole (E. custos)
  • Père David's vole (E. melanogaster)
  • Yunnan red-backed vole (E. miletus)
  • Chaotung vole (E. olitor)
  • Yulungshan vole (E. proditor)
  • Ward's red-backed vole (E. wardi)
Clethrionomys
(some Red-backed
voles)
  • Western red-backed vole (C. californicus)
  • Tien Shan red-backed vole (C. centralis)
  • Southern red-backed Vole (C. gapperi)
  • Bank vole (C. glareolus)
  • Imaizumi's red-backed vole (C. imaizumii)
  • Northern red-backed vole (C. rutilus)
  • Shansei vole (C. shanseius)
Craseomys
(other Red-backed
voles)
  • Japanese red-backed vole (C. andersoni)
  • Royal vole (C. regulus)
  • Hokkaido red-backed vole (C. rex)
  • Grey red-backed vole (C. rufocanus)
  • Smith's vole (C. smithii)
Ondatrini
Neofiber
  • Round-tailed muskrat (N. alleni)
Ondatra
  • Muskrat (O. zibethicus)
Pliomyini
Dinaromys
  • Balkan snow vole (D. bogdanovi)
Pliophenacomyini
Arborimus
(Tree voles)
  • White-footed vole (A. albipes)
  • Red tree vole (A. longicaudus)
  • California red tree mouse (A. pomo)
Phenacomys
(Heather voles)
  • Western heather vole (P. intermedius)
  • Eastern heather vole (P. ungava)
Prometheomyini
Prometheomys
  • Long-clawed mole vole (P. schaposchnikowi)
Taxon identifiers
Synaptomys