Nannomys

Nannomys
Matthey's mouse (Mus mattheyi)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Mus
Subgenus:	Nannomys Peters, 1876
Species
20, see text

Nannomys is a subgenus of the rodent genus Mus , the mice. They are known as the African pygmy mice. ^[1] These species are native to sub-Saharan Africa, where they can be found in many types of habitat. ^[1] There are 20 species. ^[2]

Species include: ^[3]

• Baoule's mouse, Mus baoulei (Ivory Coast to Guinea)
• Toad mouse, Mus bufo (Mountains of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and neighboring parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Callewaert's mouse, Mus callewaerti (Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Gounda mouse, Mus goundae (Central African Republic)
• Hausa mouse, Mus haussa (Senegal to northern Nigeria)
• Ethiopian striped mouse, Mus imberbis (Ethiopia) (formerly classified in its own genus, Muriculus) ^[4]
• Desert pygmy mouse, Mus indutus (Southern Angola to western Zimbabwe and northern South Africa)
• Mahomet mouse, Mus mahomet (Ethiopia, southwestern Uganda and southwestern Kenya)
• Matthey's mouse, Mus mattheyi (Ghana)
• African pygmy mouse, Mus minutoides (Zimbabwe, Southern Mozambique, South Africa)
• Harenna mouse, Mus harennensis (southern Ethiopia) ^[5]
• Temminck's mouse, Mus musculoides (Africa south of the Sahara, excluding the range of Mus minutoides)
• Neave's mouse, Mus neavei (Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to northeastern South Africa)
• Free State pygmy mouse, Mus orangiae (South Africa)
• Oubangui mouse, Mus oubanguii (Central African Republic)
• Peters's mouse, Mus setulosus (Senegal to Ethiopia and western Kenya)
• Setzer's pygmy mouse, Mus setzeri (Northeastern Namibia, Botswana, and western Zambia)
• Thomas's pygmy mouse, Mus sorella (Eastern Cameroon to western Tanzania)
• Delicate mouse, Mus tenellus (Sudan to southern Somalia and central Tanzania)
• Gray-bellied pygmy mouse, Mus triton (Southern Ethiopia to central Angola and Malawi)

References

1. Veyrunes, F., et al. (2005). Molecular phylogeny of the African pygmy mice, subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus): implications for chromosomal evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 36(2), 358-369.
2. Veyrunes, F., et al. (2006). Phylogenomics of the genus Mus (Rodentia; Muridae): extensive genome repatterning is not restricted to the house mouse. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 273(1604), 2925-2934.
3. Mus (Nannomys) Peters, 1876. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
4. Meheretu, Yonas; Šumbera, Radim; Bryja, Josef (2015-02-01). "Enigmatic Ethiopian endemic rodent Muriculus imberbis (Rüppell 1842) represents a separate lineage within genus Mus" . Mammalia. 79 (1): 15–23. doi:10.1515/mammalia-2013-0119. ISSN   1864-1547. S2CID   87805083.
5. Krásová, J.; et al. (2022). "A new rodent species of the genus Mus (Rodentia: Muridae) confirms the biogeographical uniqueness of the isolated forests of southern Ethiopia". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 22 (2). Springer Nature: 491–509. doi:10.1007/s13127-022-00539-x. S2CID   246405287.