Mus (Mus) musculus Linnaeus 1758

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Mus; Mus musculus; Antarc*; Antarctica; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11358275; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/756C379366E3FD07D3FDCC25A7C8C982

Mus (Mus) musculus Linnaeus 1758 Mus (Mus) musculus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 62. Type Locality: Sweden, Uppsala County, Uppsala. Vernacular Names: House Mouse. Synonyms: Mus (Mus) albula Kishida 1924; Mus (Mus) cinereomaculatus Fitzinger 1867; Mus (Mus) molossinus Temminck 1844; Mus (Mus) nordmanni Keyserling and Blasius 1840; Mus (Mus) reboudi Loche 1867; Mus (Mus) tantillus G. M. Allen 1927; Mus (Mus) varius Fitzinger 1867; Mus (Mus) yonakuni Kuroda 1924. Subspecies:: Subspecies Mus (Mus) musculus subsp. musculus Linnaeus 1758 Subspecies Mus (Mus) musculus subsp. bactrianus Blyth 1846 Subspecies Mus (Mus) musculus subsp. castaneus Waterhouse 1843 Subspecies Mus (Mus) musculus subsp. domesticus Schwarz and Schwarz 1943 Subspecies Mus (Mus) musculus subsp. gentilulus Thomas 1919 Distribution: Spread over the world’s continents and islands (except Antarctica) through its close association with humans (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1998); in some areas restricted to human dwellings and habitats maintained by human activity; sometimes feral where introduced; and maintaining natural, wild populations in other regions. Distributional summaries available for Europe (Mitchell-Jones et al., 1999), Italy (Amori et al., 1999; Andreotti et al., 2001), Eolian Arch. (Cristaldi and Amori, 1988), Netherlands (Wammes, 1992 b ), Greek island of Astpálaia (Angelici et al., 1992) and other Greek Isls (Chondropoulos et al., 1995), Balearic Isls (Alcover and Gosalbez, 1988), Slovakia (Mosansky, 1994; Stanko, 1995; Stanko and Mosansky, 1994, 2000), Czech Republic (Smaha, 1996), Transylvanian Romania (Istrate, 1998), Baltic region (Miljutin, 1998; Timm et al., 1998), Russia and adjacent regions (Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995), Svjatoj Nos peninsula and isthmus in Lake Baikal (Reiter et al., 1995) and Kamchatka region (Nikanorov, 2000) in Russia, Korea (Won and Smith, 1999), Philippines (Heaney et, al., 1998), India (Agrawal, 2000), Vietnam (Dang et al., 1994), China (Zhang et al., 1997), ...