Apodemus
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| Old World field mice Temporal range: Late Miocene - recent
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Apodemus
Kaup, 1829
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Apodemus is the genus of Muridae (true mice and rats) which contains the Eurasian field mice.
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Taxonomy
Related to the Ryūkyū spiny rats (Tokudaia) and the prehistoric Rhagamys – and far more distantly to Mus and Malacomys[1] – it includes these species:
Apodemus s. str.
- Striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius
- Chevrier's field mouse, Apodemus chevrieri
- Small Japanese field mouse, Apodemus argenteus
Alsomys
- South China field mouse, Apodemus draco
- Himalayan field mouse, Apodemus gurkha
- Sichuan field mouse, Apodemus latronum
- Korean field mouse, Apodemus peninsulae
- Taiwan field mouse, Apodemus semotus
- Large Japanese field mouse, Apodemus speciosus
Sylvaemus
- Alpine field mouse, Apodemus alpicola
- Yellow-necked mouse, Apodemus flavicollis – includes A. arianus
- Caucasus field mouse, Apodemus hyrcanicus
- Ward's field mouse, Apodemus pallipes
- Black Sea field mouse, Apodemus ponticus
- Wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus
- Ural field mouse, Apodemus uralensis
- Pygmy field mouse, Apodemus uralensis microps
- Cimrman Ural field mouse, Apodemus uralensis cimrmani
- Steppe field mouse, Apodemus witherbyi
Krastomys
- Broad-toothed field mouse, Apodemus mystacinus
- Western broad-toothed field mouse, Apodemus (mystacinus) epimelas
- Kashmir field mouse, Apodemus rusiges
Prehistoric species described from fossil remains include:
- Apodemus gorafensis (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Italy)[verification needed]
- Apodemus dominans (Kolzoi 1959)
References
- ↑ Steppan et al. (2005)
Further reading
- Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. (2005): Superfamily Muroidea. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference: 894–1531. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Steppan, S.J.; Adkins, R.M.; Spinks, P.Q. & Hale, C. (2005): Multigene phylogeny of the Old World mice, Murinae, reveals distinct geographic lineages and the declining utility of mitochondrial genes compared to nuclear genes. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 37(2): 370–388. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.016 PDF fulltext
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