Java harvest mouse
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The Java harvest mouse ( Mus vulcani ) is a little researched rodent from the genus of mice ( Mus ). It occurs in the west of Java .
features
The head-trunk length is 80 to 92 mm, the tail length 84 to 92 mm and the hind foot length 20 to 23 mm. No specific data are available for weight. The top is dark brown in color, the underside gray yellow-brown. The two-colored tail is roughly the same length as the head-torso length. The fur is soft. The females have three pairs of teats .
habitat
The Java harvest mouse lives in high mountain forests at altitudes of 2,400 m.
Way of life
The Java harvest mouse is terrestrial and possibly nocturnal. Its long snout, small eyes and velvety fur suggest that it searches for food in the leaves, in the ferns or on rotted tree trunks. Their diet consists of invertebrates. No further information is known about the way of life.
status
The Java harvest mouse is listed in the IUCN Red List in the category “not endangered” ( least concern ). The species is believed to be quite rare, but there is no evidence that the population is declining.
Systematics
The Java harvest mouse was described by Herbert Christopher Robinson and Cecil Boden Kloss in 1919 as a subspecies of the Sumatran harvest mouse ( Mus crociduroides ). In 1977 it was recognized by Joe Truesdell Marshall as an independent species and, due to its skull characteristics, placed in the subgenus Coelomys together with the Sumatran harvest mouse .
literature
- Christiane Denys , Peter John Taylor , Connor Burgin, Ken Aplin, Pierre-Henri Fabre, Rudolf Haslauer, John Woinarski, Bill Breed, James Menzies: Family Muridae (Old World Mice) In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 7: Rodents II, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2017, ISBN 978-84-16728-04-6 , p. 798
Individual evidence
- ^ E. Clayton and R. Kennerley: Mus vulcani. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. e.T13989A115119600 (errata version published in 2017) ( [1] ); last accessed on January 19, 2018
- ↑ Joe T. Marshall: A synopsis of Asian species of Mus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 158 (3), 1977