Apodemus sylvaticus
510. Long-tailed Field Mouse Apodemus sylvaticus French: Mulot sylvestre / German: \ Waldmaus / Spanish: Ratén de campo de cola larga Other common names: Small Wood Mouse, Wood Mouse Taxonomy. Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus, 1758, Uppsala , Sweden. Apodemus sylvaticus was included in the Syl vaemus group o...
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| Summary: | 510. Long-tailed Field Mouse Apodemus sylvaticus French: Mulot sylvestre / German: \ Waldmaus / Spanish: Ratén de campo de cola larga Other common names: Small Wood Mouse, Wood Mouse Taxonomy. Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus, 1758, Uppsala , Sweden. Apodemus sylvaticus was included in the Syl vaemus group on morphological grounds by G. G. Musser and colleagues in 1996. Its abundance in Europe has made it the subject of many morphological and morpho-anatomical studies as well as genetic ones, as summarized by Musser and M. D. Carleton in 2005. Of the latest molecular phylogenies, that by H. Suzuki and coworkers in 2008 confirmed the position of A. sylvaticus in a Sylvaemus group and a A. sylvaticus clade including A. alpicola, A. flavicollis, and A. ponticus, while the Liu Qi team in 2012 and J. Darvish and colleagues in 2015 found A. sylvaticus to besister taxon of a clade including A. flavicollis + A. uralensis + A. alpicola. Monotypic. Distribution. Widespread in Europe (from Iceland, Britain, and Iberia E to S Norway, S Sweden, Belarus, SW European Russia, E Ukraine, and the Balkan Peninsula) and in coastal and mountainous regions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Descriptive notes. Head-body 80-110 mm, tail 70-115 mm, ear 15-18 mm, hindfoot 20-23 mm; weight 14-30 g. The Long-tailed Field Mouse, a small brownish mouse with large naked ears and bicolored tail, has dorsal pelage rufous brown or gray and ventral pelage grayish white. Tail is long (c.107% of head-body length), with small scales arranged in rings, and is brown above and white below. Colors ofdorsal and ventral pelage vary geographically in darkness/paleness. Females bear three pairs of mammae. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 48, FN = 43. Habitat. Long-tailed Field Mice prefer forest or forest edges but are found in wide variety of habitats, from deciduous to coniferous forests and to gardens, hedgerows, or cultivated fields, from sea level to 2000 m elevation. Food and Feeding. This Long-tailed Field Mouse is omnivorous, but predominant food is seeds and ... |
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