Apodemus
Apodemus Temporal range: Late Miocene - recent
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Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Tribe: | Apodemini |
Genus: |
Apodemus Kaup, 1829 |
Type species | |
Mus agrarius |
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Species | |
About 20, see text |
Apodemus is a genus of Muridae (true mice and rats). The name is unrelated to that of the Mus genus, instead being derived from the Greek ἀπό-δημος (literally away from home).
Taxonomy
Related to the Ryūkyū spiny rats (Tokudaia) and the prehistoric Rhagamys – and far more distantly to Mus and Malacomys – it includes these species:
Apodemus sensu stricto
- Striped field mouse, A. agrarius
- Small Japanese field mouse, A. argenteus
- Chevrier's field mouse, A. chevrieri
Alsomys
- South China field mouse, A. draco
- Himalayan field mouse, A. gurkha
- Sichuan field mouse, A. latronum
- Korean field mouse, A. peninsulae
- Taiwan field mouse, A. semotus
- Large Japanese field mouse, A. speciosus
Sylvaemus
- Alpine field mouse, A. alpicola
- Yellow-necked mouse, A. flavicollis – includes A. arianus
- Caucasus field mouse, A. hyrcanicus
- Ward's field mouse, A. pallipes
- Black Sea field mouse, A. ponticus
- Wood mouse, A. sylvaticus
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Ural field mouse, A. uralensis
- Pygmy field mouse, A. u. microps
- Cimrman Ural field mouse, A. u. cimrmani
- Steppe field mouse, A. witherbyi
Karstomys
- Western broad-toothed field mouse, A. epimelas
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse, A. mystacinus
- Kashmir field mouse, A. rusiges
Incertae sedis
- Apodemus avicennicus Darvish, Javidkar & Siahsarvie, 2006
Prehistoric species described from fossil remains include:
- A. gorafensis (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Italy)
- A. dominans (Kolzoi 1959)