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Mus (Mus)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Muridae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Rodent

Class
  
Mammalia

Scientific name
  
Mus

Rank
  
Subgenus

Mus (Mus) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Similar
  
House mouse, Rodent, Ryukyu mouse, Gairdner's shrewmouse, Little Indian field mouse

Mus is a subgenus of the rodent genus Mus.

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Species

  • 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

    The following phylogeny of Mus is from Lundrigan et al. (2002).

    References

    Mus (Mus) Wikipedia
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