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The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from southern Canada to the southwestern United States and Mexico. [1] In the Maritimes, its only location is a disjunct population in southern Nova Scotia . [ 2 ]
The Ethiopian white-footed mouse [1] or white-footed stenocephalemys [2] (Stenocephalemys albipes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It lives in Ethiopia and Eritrea . Its natural habitats are tropical moist montane forest and tropical high-altitude shrubland .
The white-footed climbing mouse (Rhipidomys leucodactylus) is a species of South American rodent found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. [1] It is the type species of the genus and the type location was the lower eastern slopes of the Andes in central Peru.
A mouse (pl.: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are locally common. They are ...
The wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) is a murid rodent native to Europe and northwestern Africa. It is closely related to the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) but differs in that it has no band of yellow fur around the neck, has slightly smaller ears, and is usually slightly smaller overall: around 90 mm (3.54 in) in length and 23 g in weight. [2]
The genus Mus or typical mice refers to a specific genus of muroid rodents, all typically called mice (the adjective "muroid" comes from the word "Muroidea", which is a large superfamily of rodents, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and many other relatives), though the term can be used for other rodents.
Verreaux's mouse or Verreaux's white-footed rat (Myomyscus verreauxii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Myomyscus . Other species that had been previously assigned to Myomyscus are now considered to belong to the genera Mastomys , Ochromyscus , Praomys and Stenocephalemys .
Sminthidae is a family of mouse-like jumping rodents.They are represented by only one extant genus, Sicista, represented by 19 species found throughout most of Eurasia, from central Europe east to Siberia, and south to southern China.