Mus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Mus

description: <i>Mus</i> Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:59. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus musculus</i> Linnaeus, 1758. SYNONYMS: <i>Budamys, Coelomys, Drymomys, Gatamiya, Hylenomys, Leggada, Leggadilla, Musculus,</i> <i>Mycteromys, Nannomys, Oromys, Pseudoconontys, Pyromys, Tautatus.</i> COMMENTS: Extant species of <i>Mus</i> are contained in four distinct subgenera <i>(Coelomys,</i> <i>Mus, Nannomys,</i> and <i>Pyromys</i> <i>),</i> each diagnosed by a suite of discrete morphological traits (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 19775, 1986) and biochemical features (Bonhomme, 1986; She et al., 1990). <i>Nannomys, Pyromys,</i> and <i>Coelomys</i> were treated as genera by Bonhomme (1986), a view also adopted by She et al. (1990). The Asian species were reviewed by J. T. Marshall, Jr. (19775) and the European forms by Marshall (1981, 1986), Marshall and Sage (1981), Bonhomme et al. (1984), Gerasimov et al. (1990), and She et al. (1990). Most of the African species need careful systematic review (see accounts below of species in subgenus <i>Nannomys)</i> and Ansell (in Meester et al., 1986:280) believed the African segment of the genus to be "over-split." Relevance of metrical, chromosomal, and allozyme variation to systematics of <i>Mus</i> was discussed by Corbet (1990). See Carleton and Musser (1984) for authors and publication dates of synonyms.
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 622, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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