Mus (subgenus)

Mus (Mus)
House mouse (Mus musculus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Mus
Subgenus: Mus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Mus musculus[1][2]
Linnaeus, 1758

Mus is a subgenus of the rodent genus Mus.

Species

Phylogeny

The following phylogeny of Mus is from Barbara Lundrigan and colleagues' 2002 paper in Systematic Biology.[3]

Mus 

Coelomys

Nannomys

Pyromys

Subgenus Mus 

Mus caroli

Mus cookii

Mus cervicolor

Mus spretus

Mus spicilegus

Mus macedonicus

Mus musculus 

Mus musculus domesticus

Mus musculus castaneus

Mus musculus molossinus

Mus musculus musculus

References

  1. Hemming, Francis, ed. (1958) [1910]. "Opinion 16. The Status of Prebinomial Specific Names (Published Prior to 1758) Under Art. 30d". Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1 (B): 37.
  2. Oldfield, Thomas (1911). "The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnæus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1911 (1): 146. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1911.tb06995.x.
  3. Lundrigan, Barbara L.; Jansa, Sharon A.; Tucker, Priscilla K.; Sullivan, Jack (2002). "Phylogenetic Relationships in the Genus Mus, Based on Paternally, Maternally, and Biparentally Inherited Characters". Systematic Biology. 51 (3): 410–431. doi:10.1080/10635150290069878. PMID 12079642.


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