Apodemus Kaup 1829 (Eurasian field mouse)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae

Parent taxon: Muridae according to A. van de Weerd 1973

See also McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Abditomys, Afrocricetodontinae, Allorattus, Anthracomys, Apomys, Arvicanthis, Bullimus, Castillomys, Castorina, Castromys, Centralomys, Chiropodomys, Colomys, Dasymys, Deomyinae, Echymina, Extrarius, Gerbillinae, Gerbua, Grammomys, Hapalomys, Huaxiamys, Huerzelerimys, Hydromina, Hyomys, Karnimata, Kritimys, Lemniscomys, Limnomys, Mastacomys, Micromys, Mikrotia, Murina, Murinae, Myocricetodontinae, Myotomys, Mysops, Nesokia, Occitanomys, Orientalomys, Papagomys, Paraethomys, Parapelomys, Parapodemus, Parotomys, Pelomys, Praomys, Proceromys, Progonomys, Rhabdomys, Rhagamys, Rhagapodemus, Rhagomys, Saccostomus, Saidomys, Spalacinae, Steatomys, Stephanomys, Tachyoryctoidinae, Tarsomys, Thallomys, Thamnomys, Valerimys, Zelotomys

Subtaxa: Apodemus agrarius Apodemus gudrunae Apodemus lii Apodemus mystacinus

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Type: Mus agrarius

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), China (2), Czechia (1), France (4), Georgia (1), Germany (11), Greece (24), Hungary (5), Israel (4), Italy (22), Japan (3), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Romania (3), Spain (20), Syria (1), Türkiye (3), the United Kingdom (2)

• MN 16 of France (1), Italy (2), Poland (1)

• Villafranchian of China (2), Greece (7), Hungary (4), Italy (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (5)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1), Italy (2), Spain (1)

• Pliocene of Afghanistan (1), China (3), France (5), Germany (2), Greece (18), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Moldova (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (16), Türkiye (4)

• MN 13 of China (2), Greece (1), Spain (1)

• Turolian of Greece (9), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)

• Miocene of Greece (1), Italy (35), Spain (2)

Total: 252 collections including 295 occurrences

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