Micromys minutus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,118 meters (0 to 13,510 feet).[1]

Ecology: Present in a wide variety of habitats , including alpine grasslands, tall grass fields , bamboo stands, wetlands, reedbeds, and clearings and edges of humid forest . It has also adapted to a variety of anthropogenic habitats, including gardens and arable land (in the wetter north-western parts of its range ), drainage ditches, and grain or rice paddies (Spitzenberger 1999). It has a high tolerance of disturbed habitats (Haberl and Kryštufek 2003). Their diet includes seeds, green vegetation, insects, and bird's eggs .[2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.1     Forest - Boreal   
  
•     1.2     Forest - Subarctic   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.4     Grassland - Temperate   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.7     Artificial/Aquatic - Irrigated Land (includes irrigation channels )   
  
•     15.8     Artificial/Aquatic - Seasonally Flooded Agricultural Land   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 02-May-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Micromys

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. minutus (European Harvest Mouse)

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Further Reading

• A handbook to the vertebrate fauna of north Wales. London, Witherby & Co., 1919. url p. 15.
• A history of British mammals / London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910-[1921]. url , , , , .
• A history of British mammals, by Gerald E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. .. With twenty-seven full-page plates in colour, fifty-four in black and white, and upwards of two hundred and fifty smaller illustrations, drawn by Edward A. Wilson London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910-1921. url , p. 554.
• A list of the generic and family names of rodents / by T.S. Palmer. Washington: Biological Society of Washington, 1897. url p. 255.
• An illustrated dictionary of scientific terms. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, pref. 1878. url p. 158.
• Animal life of the British Isles. A pocket guide to the mammals, reptiles and batrachians of wayside and woodland. London, Frederick Warne, 1921. url p. 179.
• Animate creation: popular edition of "Our living world": a natural history / by the Rev. J.G. Wood. New York: Selmar Hess, c1898. url .
• Biology code of the Chemical-Biological Coordination Center... Washington, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1960. url p. 52.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 210, p. 351.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 129, p. 34, p. 65, p. 84.
• Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum London: printed by order of the Trustees, 1912. url , , , .
• Catalogue of the mammals of western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum / by Gerrit S. Miller. London: BMNH, 1912. url p. 1011, p. 1015, p. 1017, p. 841.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. url p. 561.
• Ciba Foundation colloquia on ageing. Editors for the Ciba Foundation: G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Margaret P. Cameron, assisted by Joan Etherington. Boston, Little, Brown, 1955-[1959] url p. 10.
• Comparative physiology of temperature regulation. Editors: John P. Hannon [and] Eleanor Viereck. Fort Wainwright, Alaska, Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory, 1962. url p. 230.
• Descriptive catalogue of the specimens of natural history in spirit contained in the Museum of the Royal college of surgeons of England. Vertebrata: Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia. London, Taylor and Francis, 1859. url p. 119.
• Elements of zoology. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1886. url .
• Evolution of the alimentary system in myomorph rodents = Evolyutsiya pishchevari tel'noi sistemy gryzunov mysheobraznye / N. N. Vorontsov. New Delhi: Published for the Smithsonian Institute and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, New Delhi, 1979. url p. 220.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 363, p. 656.
• General function of the gall bladder from the evolutionary standpoint, by Frank W. Gorham and Andrew Conway Ivy. 22 1938 Chicago, 1938. url p. 200.
• Homes without hands. Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. By the Rev. J.G. Wood. .. With new designs by W.F. Keyl and E. Smith. Engraved by Messrs. Pearson. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1866. url p. 213.
• Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals. By T. S. Palmer. .. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1904. url p. 422.
• Journal of mammalogy. Baltimore, Md.: American Society of Mammalogists url p. 43.
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Notes

Contributors

• Aplin, K., Lunde, D., Batsaikhan, N., Kryštufek, B., Meinig, H. & Henttonen, H. 2008. Micromys minutus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

• Mammal Research Institute PAS, Mammal Collection
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• Michigan State University Museum, Vertebrate specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Biological Records Centre - Mammal records from Britain from the Atlas of Mammals
• , with some subsequent records

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 108499
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-585369
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13852772
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 585369
• IUCN ID: 223491
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 6356

Footnotes

1. Mean = 173.380 meters (568.832 feet), Standard Deviation = 422.350 based on 4,720 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Aplin, K., Lunde, D., Batsaikhan, N., Kryštufek, B., Meinig, H. & Henttonen, H. 2008. Micromys minutus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]

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