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Subgenus of rodents
Mus is a
subgenus of the rodent genus
Mus.
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Little Indian field mouse, Mus booduga (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, southern Nepal, central Myanmar)
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Ryukyu mouse, Mus caroli (Ryukyu islands, Taiwan and southern China to Thailand; introduced in Malaysia and western Indonesia)
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Fawn-colored mouse, Mus cervicolor (Northern India to Vietnam; introduced to Sumatra and Java)
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Cook's mouse, Mus cookii (Southern and northeastern India and Nepal to Vietnam)
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Cypriot mouse, Mus cypriacus (Cyprus)
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Servant mouse, Mus famulus (Southwestern India)
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Sheath-tailed mouse, Mus fragilicauda (Thailand and Laos)
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Macedonian mouse, Mus macedonicus (Balkans to Israel and Iran)
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House mouse, Mus musculus (introduced worldwide)
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Mus nitidulus (Central Myanmar)
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Steppe mouse, Mus spicilegus (Austria to southern Ukraine and Greece)
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Algerian mouse, Mus spretus (Southern France, Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, Morocco to Tunisia)
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Earth-colored mouse, Mus terricolor (India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan; introduced to Sumatra)
The following phylogeny of Mus is from Barbara Lundrigan and colleagues' 2002 paper in
Systematic Biology.
[3]
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
Extant species of subfamily
Murinae ( Melasmothrix– Mus) |
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Melasmothrix division | Melasmothrix | |
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Tateomys (Greater Sulawesian shrew rats) | |
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Micromys division | |
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Millardia division | |
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Mus division | |
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