page_title: Ash-grey mouse
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Ash-grey mouse / Description
caption_attribution_description: Plate in Gould's Mammals of Australia volume 3. The title is the caption in that work, and may be a synonym. The file was uploaded with the current name in the category, a crop and other adjustments were made to the image. The caption and other details were removed.
context_page_description: The ash-grey mouse – Pseudomys albocinereus – is a rodent in the family Muridae.
  Larger and more robust than Mus musculus, the common house mouse, it is found only in Southwest Australia.
context_section_description: A medium sized species of the genus Pseudomys, in a weight range of 15 to 40 grams and distinguished by its long and soft fur. The colour of the pelage is mid-grey with patches of fawn, the paler underparts extend to white areas of fur below the eye and over the snout. They are noted for the camouflage provided by their coloration, which closely matches their sandy habitat. The length of the head and body is 70 to 100 millimetres, the tail is slightly longer at 85 to 110 mm. There is a small amount of hair at the tail, the scales of which are pinkish except at the upper surface near the body where a line of dark brown appears. The hind foot measurement is 20 to 25 mm and has granulated surface at the underside, the terminal pads of the five toes are larger than the interdigital and posthallucal pads. The ears are the typical form of the genus, smaller than most murines, the greatest length from notch at the head to the tip is 17 to 19 mm. They possess two pairs of inguinal teats, for a total of four.
  They overlap in range with Pseudomys occidentalis, locally referred to as the western mouse, which is distinguished by a relatively long and grey rather than pink tail, a buff coloration of their pelage, interdigital pads that are larger than the terminal pads of the toes and lack of the granulated texture at the hind foot of this species. The introduced european mouse, Mus musculus, has distinctly smaller eyes, a characteristic notch on the incisors and familiar mousey odour.
caption: Mus albocinereus by Henry C. Richter in Gould's Mammals of Australia 1863
exif: {}