Mus (subgenus)

For other uses, see Mus.

Mus
House mouse (Mus musculus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Mus
Subgenus:	Mus Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Mus musculus [1] [2] Linnaeus, 1758

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	Coelomys Nannomys Pyromys Mus (subgenus) Mus caroli Mus cookii Mus cervicolor Mus spretus Mus spicilegus Mus macedonicus Mus musculus Mus musculus domesticus Mus musculus castaneus Mus musculus molossinus Mus musculus musculus

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.