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| Mus (Mus) | |
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| House mouse (Mus musculus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Mus |
| Subgenus: | Mus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Mus musculus[1][2] Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Species
[edit]- Little Indian field mouse, Mus booduga (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, southern Nepal, central Myanmar)
- Ryukyu mouse, Mus caroli (Ryukyu islands, Taiwan and southern China to Thailand; introduced in Malaysia and western Indonesia)
- Fawn-colored mouse, Mus cervicolor (Northern India to Vietnam; introduced to Sumatra and Java)
- Cook's mouse, Mus cookii (Southern and northeastern India and Nepal to Vietnam)
- Cypriot mouse, Mus cypriacus (Cyprus)
- Servant mouse, Mus famulus (Southwestern India)
- Sheath-tailed mouse, Mus fragilicauda (Thailand and Laos)
- Macedonian mouse, Mus macedonicus (Balkans to Israel and Iran)
- House mouse, Mus musculus (introduced worldwide)
- Mus nitidulus (Central Myanmar)
- Steppe mouse, Mus spicilegus (Austria to southern Ukraine and Greece)
- Algerian mouse, Mus spretus (Southern France, Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, Morocco to Tunisia)
- Earth-colored mouse, Mus terricolor (India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan; introduced to Sumatra)
Phylogeny
[edit]The following phylogeny of Mus is from Barbara Lundrigan and colleagues' 2002 paper in Systematic Biology.[3]
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References
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Wikispecies has information related to Mus (Mus).
- ↑ Hemming, Francis, ed. (1958) [1910]. "Opinion 16. The Status of Prebinomial Specific Names (Published Prior to 1758) Under Art. 30d". Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1 (B): 37.
- ↑ Oldfield, Thomas (1911). "The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnæus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1911 (1): 146. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1911.tb06995.x.
- ↑ Lundrigan, Barbara L.; Jansa, Sharon A.; Tucker, Priscilla K.; Sullivan, Jack (2002). "Phylogenetic Relationships in the Genus Mus, Based on Paternally, Maternally, and Biparentally Inherited Characters". Systematic Biology. 51 (3): 410–431. doi:10.1080/10635150290069878. PMID 12079642.
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