| True lemmings Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
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| Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Lemmini |
| Genus: | Lemmus Link, 1795 |
| Type species | |
| Lemmus lemmus | |
| Species | |
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L. amurensis | |
| Synonyms | |
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Myodes[1] | |
The genus Lemmus contains several species of lemming sometimes referred to as the true lemmings. They are distributed throughout the Holarctic, particularly in the Palearctic.
- ^ Krystufek, B. (2019). "Back to the future: the proper name for red-backed voles is Clethrionomys Tilesius and not Myodes Pallas". Mammalia. 84 (2). doi:10.1515/mammalia-2019-0067.