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The Cypriot mouse (Mus cypriacus) is a species of mouse endemic to Cyprus. [2] [3] Its primary habitat seems to be the vineyards and fields of the Troödos Mountains region. [4] The mouse was recognized as a new species in 2004 by Thomas Cucchi , a research fellow at the University of Durham. It was formally described in 2006, in the journal ...
There are seventeen mammal species native to Cyprus, excluding feral species. [1] Most of the land mammals have been introduced, with only the Cypriot mouse being endemic. The other mammal species present on the islands during the Late Pleistocene, including the Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus, the Cyprus dwarf elephant, and Cyprus genet, are extinct.
Cyprus is currently home to 21 known mammals, of which three are endangered. [5] The largest wild animal and mammal currently residing in Cyprus is the endemic Cypriot mouflon. Other notable mammals are the large endangered Mediterranean monk seal [6] and the endemic Cypriot mouse, which is the only remaining endemic rodent on the Mediterranean ...
The earliest humans to inhabit Cyprus were hunter gatherers who arrived on the island around 13–12,000 years ago (11–10,000 BC), with some of the oldest well-dated sites being Aetokremnos on the south coast, which is suggested to show evidence of hunting of the dwarf hippopotamus and dwarf elephant, and the inland site of Roudias in ...
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Cypriot mouse, Mus cypriacus (Cyprus) Servant mouse, Mus famulus (Southwestern India) Sheath-tailed mouse, Mus fragilicauda (Thailand and Laos) Macedonian mouse, Mus macedonicus (Balkans to Israel and Iran) House mouse, Mus musculus (introduced worldwide) Mus nitidulus (Central Myanmar) Steppe mouse, Mus spicilegus (Austria to southern Ukraine ...
A number of rodents are described each year. Notable among those described since 2000 are the Cypriot mouse (Mus cypriacus), and the Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus), which represents a family, Diatomyidae, thought to be extinct since the Miocene, and has been described as a living fossil.
The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species.Members of this subfamily are called murines.In terms of species richness, this subfamily is larger than all mammal families except the Cricetidae and Muridae, and is larger than all mammal orders except the bats and the remainder of the rodents.
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