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Taxonomy
Mus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was assigned to Glires by Linnaeus (1758); to Murina by Illiger (1811) and Gray (1825); to Murinae by Ruedas and Kirsch (1997); and to Muridae by van de Weerd (1973), Worthy (1997), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Burney et al. (2008).
It was assigned to Glires by Linnaeus (1758); to Murina by Illiger (1811) and Gray (1825); to Murinae by Ruedas and Kirsch (1997); and to Muridae by van de Weerd (1973), Worthy (1997), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Burney et al. (2008).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Mus Linnaeus p. 59 |
| 1811 | Mus Illiger p. 85 |
| 1825 | Mus Gray p. 341 |
| 1837 | Leggada Gray p. 586 |
| 1973 | Mus van de Weerd |
| 1997 | Mus McKenna and Bell |
| 1997 | Mus Ruedas and Kirsch |
| 1997 | Mus Worthy p. 113 |
| 2008 | Mus Burney et al. p. 19 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Mus Linnaeus 1758 [house mouse]
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Mus alexandrinus Geoffroy 1818
†Mus bateae Mayhew 1977
Mus domesticus Shwarz and Shwarz 1943 [house mouse]
Mus erythroleucus Temminck 1853
†Mus hipparionum Schlosser 1924
†Mus minotaurus Bate 1942
Mus musculoides Temminck 1853 [Temminck's mouse]
Mus musculus Linnaeus 1758 [house mouse]
Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 [wood mouse]
Invalid names: Leggada Gray 1837 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Turolian to the top of the Holocene or 8.70000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 7.246 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 7.246 Ma
Collections (206 total)
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian | China (Yunnan) | Mus sp. (11798) | |
| Turolian | China (Yunnan) | Mus sp. (44219 44220 44224) | |
| Messinian - Piacenzian | South Africa (Cape) | Mus sp. (59167) | |
| Ruscinian | Afghanistan | Mus elegans (43010) | |
| Pliocene | Greece (Kos) | Apodemus sylvaticus (34654) | |
| Pliocene | South Africa | Mus sp. (22339 22341 22353) | |
| Pliocene | Austria (Lower Austria) | Apodemus sylvaticus (167717) | |
| Pliocene | India | Mus flynni (70525) Mus linnaeusi (70526) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Hungary (Barany) | Apodemus sylvaticus (35383 35473) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | France (Midi-Pyrenees) | Apodemus sylvaticus (35076) | |
| MN 15 - MN 16 | Ukraine | Mus sp. (50943) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | China (Hebei) | Mus sp. (13486) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Morocco | Mus haouzi (32052 32056) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | India | Mus flynni, Mus jacobsi, Mus sp. (70523) Mus sp. (70522) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Piacenzian | Ethiopia | Mus minutoides (21546) | |
| Piacenzian | Ethiopia | Mus sp. (21773) | |
| Piacenzian | China (Shensi) | Mus sp. (34506) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | South Africa | Mus sp. (22333 22334) | |
| MN 16 | Austria (Lower Austria) | Apodemus sylvaticus (167680) | |
| Villanyian | Hungary (Komaromesztergom) | Apodemus sylvaticus (35373) | |