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Mus subgen. Mus Linnaeus 1758

Mus (subgenus)

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Mus is a subgenus of the rodent genus Mus.

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 Barbara Lundrigan and colleagues' 2002 paper in Systematic Biology.^[3]

Mus

Subgenus Mus

Mus cervicolor

Mus spicilegus

Mus macedonicus

Mus musculus

Mus musculus domesticus

Mus musculus castaneus

Mus musculus molossinus

Mus musculus musculus

References

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.

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Mus (subgenus): Brief Summary

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Mus is a subgenus of the rodent genus Mus.

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