Altai birch mouse
Altai birch mouse | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sminthidae |
Genus: | Sicista |
Species: | S. napaea |
Binomial name | |
Sicista napaea Hollister, 1912 |
The Altai birch mouse (Sicista napaea) is a species of rodent in the family Sminthidae. It is native to Russia and Kazakhstan.[1] A baby Altai birch mouse is called a 'pinkie, kitten or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A Altai birch mouse group is called a 'nest, colony, harvest, horde or mischief'.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Tsytsulina, K. 2008. Sicista napaea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 19 April 2015.
- ^ "Altai birch mouse | Sicista napaea facts".
Further reading
[edit]- Holden, M.E.; Musser, G.G. (2005). "Species Sicista napaea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 871–893. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Cserkész, Tamás; Rusin, Mikhail; Sramkó, Gábor (2016). "An integrative systematic revision of the European southern birch mice (Rodentia: Sminthidae, Sicista subtilis group)". Mammal Review. 46 (2): 114–130. doi:10.1111/mam.12058. ISSN 0305-1838.