Mound-building mouse

Mound-building mouse

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Species : Mus spicilegus

 

The Mound-building mouse, steppe mouse is listed as Near Threatened (LR/nt), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Namings for the moundbuilding mouse
A young / baby of a moundbuilding mouse is called a 'pinkie, kitten or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A moundbuilding mouse group is called a 'nest, colony, harvest, horde or mischief'.
Some facts about the
Steppe mouse

Maximum longevity : 4 years

Source: AnAge, licensed under CC

Facts about the mound-building mouse

/155-157/ Kurt BAUER , Friederike SPITZENBERGER, Klaus UNTERHOLZNER The mound-building mouse (Mus spicilegus) is part of the Slovakian fauna.

/233-236/ Andrej STOLLMANN and Miloš MACHOLÁN The mound-building mouse is a part of the Slovakian fauna – a reply.

- Macholán, Miloš The mound-building mouse is part of the Slovakian fauna - a reply.

A (Mus musculus) minden, felé gyakori házi kártevõ; hozzá hasonló a güzüegér (Mus spicilegus) is.

Mound-Building Mouse or Mus spicilegus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Near Threatened .

The mound-building mouse is part of the Slovakian fauna - a reply.

Mus spicilegus is an Eastern European wild mouse species that has previously been reported to harbor an unusual infectious ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV) and proviral envelope genes of a novel MLV subgroup. (Full text)

Mus spicilegus is an Eastern European wild mouse species that has previously been reported to harbor an unusual infectious ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV) and proviral envelope genes of a novel MLV subgroup. (Full text)

htm'); CallAdv(); CreateTd(3) A (Mus musculus) minden, felé gyakori házi kártevõ; hozzá hasonló a güzüegér (Mus spicilegus) is. (Full text)

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