Chinese Birch Mouse

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Chinese Birch Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dipodidae
Genus: Sicista
Species: S. caudata
Binomial name
Sicista caudata
Thomas, 1907

The Chinese Birch Mouse (Sicista caudata), also known as the Long-tailed Birch Mouse, is a species of jumping mouse found in Northeast Asia. It has been reported from the Ussuri region of Manchuria, Sakhalin Island and Primorsky Krai in Russia, and northern North Korea. It is listed as endangered by the IUCN.[1]

The Chinese Birch Mouse favors riversides and wetlands, but is also found in cultivated land.

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