Altai birch mouse

Altai birch mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sminthidae
Genus:	Sicista
Species:	S. napaea
Binomial name
Sicista napaea Hollister, 1912

The Altai birch mouse (Sicista napaea) is a species of rodent in the family Sminthidae. It is native to Russia and Kazakhstan. ^[1] A baby Altai birch mouse is called a 'pinkie, kitten or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A Altai birch mouse group is called a 'nest, colony, harvest, horde or mischief'. ^[2]

References

1. Tsytsulina, K. 2008. Sicista napaea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 19 April 2015.
2. "Altai birch mouse | Sicista napaea facts".

Further reading

• Holden, M.E.; Musser, G.G. (2005). "Species Sicista napaea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 871–893. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
• Cserkész, Tamás; Rusin, Mikhail; Sramkó, Gábor (2016). "An integrative systematic revision of the European southern birch mice (Rodentia: Sminthidae, Sicista subtilis group)" . Mammal Review. 46 (2): 114–130. Bibcode:2016MamRv..46..114C. doi:10.1111/mam.12058. ISSN   0305-1838.