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
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Species | |
See text. |
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]