Old World field mice Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent |
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Wood Mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Eutheria |
Superorder: | Euarchontoglires |
Order: | Rodentia |
Suborder: | Myomorpha |
Superfamily: | Muroidea |
Family: | Muridae |
Subfamily: | Murinae |
Tribe: | Apodemurini |
Genus: | Apodemus Kaup, 1829 |
Species | |
About 20, see text |
Apodemus is the genus of Muridae (true mice and rats) which contains the Eurasian field mice. Related to the Ryūkyū spiny rats (Tokudaia) and the prehistoric Rhagamys – and far more distantly to Mus and Malacomys[1] –, it includes the following species:
Prehistoric species that have been described from fossil remains include: