Apodemus

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).

Apodemus
Temporal range: Late Miocene - recent
Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Apodemini
Genus: Apodemus
Kaup, 1829
Type species
Mus agrarius
Species

About 20, see text

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 sensu stricto

  • Striped field mouse, A. agrarius
  • Small Japanese field mouse, A. argenteus
  • Chevrier's field mouse, A. chevrieri

Alsomys

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
  • 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)[2]
  • A. dominans (Kolzoi 1959)

References

  1. Steppan et al. (2005)
  2. Alexandra van der Geer; George Lyras; John de Vos; Michael Dermitzakis (2011). Evolution of Island Mammals: Adaptation and Extinction of Placental Mammals on Islands. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781444391282.

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