Sumatran harvest mouse

Sumatran harvest mouse
Systematics
Class :	Mammals (mammalia)
Order :	Rodents (Rodentia)
Subordination :	Mouse relatives (Myomorpha)
Family :	Long-tailed mice (Muridae)
Genre :	Mice ( Mus )
Type :	Sumatran harvest mouse
Scientific name
	Mus crociduroides
	( Robinson, HC & Kloss , 1916)

The Sumatran harvest mouse ( Mus crociduroides ) is a little researched rodent from the genus of mice ( Mus ). It occurs in the west of Sumatra .

features

The head-trunk length is 77 to 97 mm, the tail length 111 to 129 mm and the hind foot length 21 to 23 mm. No specific data are available for weight. The upper side is colored purple, the lower side silvery gray. The two-tone tail is longer than the head-torso length. The fur is soft. The females have three pairs of teats .

habitat

The Sumatran harvest mouse lives in high mountain forests at altitudes of 2,300 to 3,000 m.

Way of life

The Sumatran harvest mouse is terrestrial and possibly nocturnal. Its shrew-like morphology (long snout, small eyes and velvety fur) suggests that it searches for food in foliage, fern bushes or rotted tree trunks. Their diet consists of invertebrates. No further information is known about the way of life.

status

The Sumatran harvest mouse is listed in the IUCN Red List in the category “insufficient data” ( data deficient ).

Systematics

Because of its peculiar morphology , this species was previously classified together with the Java harvest mouse ( Mus vulcani ) in the subgenus Mycteromys . In 1977 Joe Truesdell Marshall placed it in the subgenus Coelomys due to its skull characteristics . Molecular studies by Patricia Sourrouille and her colleagues from 1995 and by Ken Aplin and Hitoshi Suzuki from 2012 confirmed this classification, with the Sumatran harvest mouse forming a sister group with the Indochina mouse ( Mus pahari ).

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

^ R. Gerrie and R. Kennerley: Mus crociduroides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. e.T13959A115116693 (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
↑ Patricia Sourrouille, Manuel Ruedi , C. Hanni, Francois Catzeflis: Molecular systematics of Mus crociduroides, an endemic mouse of Sumatra (Muridae: Rodentia). Mammalia, Volume 59 (1), 1995 doi : 10.1515 / mamm.1995.59.1.91
^ H. Suzuki, KP Aplin: Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Mus in Eurasia. In: M. Macholán, SJE Baird, P. Munclinger, L. Piálek (Eds.): Evolution of the house mouse. Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules: new paradigms in evolutionary biology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 35-64

[1] R. Gerrie and R. Kennerley: Mus crociduroides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. e.T13959A115116693 (errata version published in 2017) ( [1] ); last accessed on January 19, 2018

[2] Joe T. Marshall: A synopsis of Asian species of Mus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 158 (3), 1977

[3] Patricia Sourrouille, Manuel Ruedi , C. Hanni, Francois Catzeflis: Molecular systematics of Mus crociduroides, an endemic mouse of Sumatra (Muridae: Rodentia). Mammalia, Volume 59 (1), 1995 doi : 10.1515 / mamm.1995.59.1.91

[4] H. Suzuki, KP Aplin: Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Mus in Eurasia. In: M. Macholán, SJE Baird, P. Munclinger, L. Piálek (Eds.): Evolution of the house mouse. Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules: new paradigms in evolutionary biology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 35-64