Mus (genus)
Genus of rodents
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Subgenera, species, and subspecies
The following is a list of Mus subgenera, species, and subspecies:
- Coelomys
- Mus crociduroides (Sumatran shrew-like mouse)
- Mus mayori (Mayor's mouse)
- Mus pahari (Gairdner's shrewmouse)
- Mus vulcani (volcano mouse)
- Mus
- Mus booduga (little Indian field mouse)
- Mus caroli (Ryukyu mouse)
- Mus cervicolor (fawn-colored mouse)
- Mus cervicolor cervicolor
- Mus cervicolor popaeus
- Mus cookii (Cook's mouse)
- Mus cypriacus (Cyprus mouse)
- Mus famulus (servant mouse)
- Mus fragilicauda (sheath-tailed mouse)
- Mus lepidoides (little Burmese field mouse)
- Mus macedonicus (Macedonian mouse)
- Mus macedonicus macedonicus
- Mus macedonicus spretoides
- Mus musculus (house mouse)
- Mus musculus albula
- Mus musculus bactrianus (Southwest Asian house mouse)
- Mus musculus brevirostris
- Mus musculus castaneus (Southeast Asian house mouse)
- Mus musculus domesticus (Western European house mouse)
- Mus musculus gansuensis
- Mus musculus gentilulus (pygmy house mouse)
- Mus musculus helgolandicus
- Mus musculus homourus
- Mus musculus isatissus
- Mus musculus molossinus (Japanese house mouse)
- Mus musculus musculus (Eastern European house mouse)
- Mus musculus wagneri
- Mus nitidulus (Blyth's mouse)
- Mus spicilegus (steppe mouse)
- Mus spretus (western wild mouse)
- Mus terricolor (earth-colored mouse)
- Mus triton (gray-bellied mouse)
- †Mus minotaurus (Cretan mouse) (extinct, Holocene)
- Muriculus
- Mus imberbis (Ethiopian striped mouse)
- Nannomys
- Mus baoulei (Baoule's mouse)
- Mus bufo (toad mouse)
- Mus callewaerti (Callewaert's mouse)
- Mus goundae (Gounda mouse)
- Mus haussa (Hausa mouse)
- Mus indutus (desert pygmy mouse)
- Mus mahomet (Mahomet mouse)
- Mus mattheyi (Matthey's mouse)
- Mus minutoides (Southern African pygmy mouse)
- Mus musculoides (Temminck's mouse)
- Mus neavei (Neave's mouse)
- Mus oubanguii (Ubangui mouse)
- Mus setulosus (Peters's mouse)
- Mus setzeri (Setzer's mouse)
- Mus sorella (Thomas's pygmy mouse)
- Mus tenellus (delicate mouse)
- Pyromys
- Mus dumbara (Dumbara valley spiny mouse)
- Mus fernandoni (Ceylon spiny mouse)
- Mus phillipsi (Phillips's mouse)
- Mus platythrix (flat-haired mouse)
- Mus saxicola (spiny mouse)
- Mus shortridgei (Shortridge's mouse)
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