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Figure 5 Live specimens of spiny mice from Sri Lanka showing the external similarity. A. Boyagoda, Meegaskumbura, Manamendra-Arachchi, 2026 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

House Mice

Mus Linnaeus, 1758

Also calledOld World Mice (eng)

Also published as
Budamys Kretzoi & Vertes, 1967; Drymomys Tschudi, 1844; Gatamiya Deraniyagala, 1966; Hylenomys Thomas, 1925; Leggada Gray, 1837; Leggadilla Thomas, 1914; Mus kagii Kuraoka, 1912; Musculus Rafinesque, 1814; Mycteromys Robinson & Kloss, 1918; Oromys Robinson & Kloss, 1916; Pseudoconomys Rhoads, 1896; Tautatus Kloss, 1917

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References

  • Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. (1987). Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, No. 166.
  • Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (1993). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd Ed., 3rd Printing.
  • Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (2005). Superfamily Muroidea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd Ed., Vol. 2.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.