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Subgenus of rodents
Nannomys is a
subgenus of the rodent genus
Mus , the mice. They are known as the African pygmy mice .
[1] These species are native to
sub-Saharan Africa , where they can be found in many types of habitat.
[1] There are 20 species.
[2]
Species include:
[3]
Baoule's mouse , Mus baoulei (Ivory Coast to Guinea)
Toad mouse , Mus bufo (Mountains of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and neighboring parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo)
Callewaert's mouse , Mus callewaerti (Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo)
Gounda mouse , Mus goundae (Central African Republic)
Hausa mouse , Mus haussa (Senegal to northern Nigeria)
Ethiopian striped mouse , Mus imberbis (Ethiopia) (formerly classified in its own genus, Muriculus )
[4]
Desert pygmy mouse , Mus indutus (Southern Angola to western Zimbabwe and northern South Africa)
Mahomet mouse , Mus mahomet (Ethiopia, southwestern Uganda and southwestern Kenya)
Matthey's mouse , Mus mattheyi (Ghana)
African pygmy mouse , Mus minutoides (Zimbabwe, Southern Mozambique, South Africa)
Temminck's mouse , Mus musculoides (Africa south of the Sahara, excluding the range of Mus minutoides )
Neave's mouse , Mus neavei (Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to northeastern South Africa)
Free State pygmy mouse , Mus orangiae (South Africa)
Oubangui mouse , Mus oubanguii (Central African Republic)
Peters's mouse , Mus setulosus (Senegal to Ethiopia and western Kenya)
Setzer's pygmy mouse , Mus setzeri (Northeastern Namibia, Botswana, and western Zambia)
Thomas's pygmy mouse , Mus sorella (Eastern Cameroon to western Tanzania)
Delicate mouse , Mus tenellus (Sudan to southern Somalia and central Tanzania)
Gray-bellied pygmy mouse , Mus triton (Southern Ethiopia to central Angola and Malawi)
References
^
a
b Veyrunes, F., et al. (2005).
Molecular phylogeny of the African pygmy mice, subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus ): implications for chromosomal evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution , 36(2), 358-369.
^ Veyrunes, F., et al. (2006).
Phylogenomics of the genus Mus (Rodentia; Muridae): extensive genome repatterning is not restricted to the house mouse. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences , 273(1604), 2925-2934.
^
Mus (Nannomys ) Peters, 1876. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
^ Meheretu, Yonas; Šumbera, Radim; Bryja, Josef (2015-02-01).
"Enigmatic Ethiopian endemic rodent Muriculus imberbis (Rüppell 1842) represents a separate lineage within genus Mus" . Mammalia . 79 (1): 15–23.
doi :
10.1515/mammalia-2013-0119 .
ISSN
1864-1547 .
S2CID
87805083 .
Extant species of subfamily
Murinae (
Melasmothrix –
Mus )
Melasmothrix division
Melasmothrix
Tateomys (Greater Sulawesian shrew rats)
Micromys division
Millardia division
Mus division