Siberian brown lemming

The Siberian brown lemming (Lemmus sibiricus) is a true lemming species found in the Russian Federation. Like other lemmings, it belongs to the Cricetidae family of rodents. It does not hibernate during winter; it lives in burrows. It is prey to several animals, including the snowy owl and the Arctic fox. As with other species of lemmings, Siberian browns routinely experience large-scale fluctuations in their population sizes.[3]

Siberian brown lemming
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Arvicolinae
Genus: Lemmus
Species:
L. sibiricus
Binomial name
Lemmus sibiricus
(Kerr, 1792)
Siberian brown lemming range[2]

References
  1. Tsytsulina, K.; Formozov, N. & Sheftel, B. (2008). "Lemmus sibiricus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
  2. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) 2008. Lemmus sibiricus. In: IUCN 2014. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. http://www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 22 March 2015.
  3. Korpimäki, Erkki; Brown, Peter; Jacob, Jens; Pech, Roger (2004). "The Puzzles of Population Cycles and Outbreaks of Small Mammals Solved?". BioScience. 54 (12): 1071–1079. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[1071:tpopca]2.0.co;2.

Further reading
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. (2005). Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.


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