Southern Birch Mouse
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| Southern Birch Mouse | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dipodidae |
| Genus: | Sicista |
| Species: | S. subtilis |
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| Sicista subtilis Pallas, 1773 |
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The Southern Birch Mouse (Sicista subtilis) is a species of birch mouse in the family Dipodidae.[2] It is found on the Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, Romania and southern Russia.
The most prominent characteristic of the Southern Birch Mouse is the dark stripe down the center of the back, which is bordered by two narrow bright stripes on both sides. From head to rump it measures from 56 to 72 mm, with a tail from 110 to 130% of the main body length. The background fur color is gray-brown.
The Southern Birch Mouse is pronouncedly a steppe dweller. It makes a subterranean burrow in the summer and hibernates. It eats green plants and insects.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Sicista subtilis 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2008. Retrieved on 12 May 2008.
- ^ Holden, Mary Ellen; Musser, Guy G. (16 November 2005). "Family Dipodidae (pp. 871-893)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12900075.
- ^ Andrew T. Smith; Yan Xie (2008). A guide to the mammals of China. Princeton University Press. pp. 207–. ISBN 978-0-691-09984-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=ka-9f68nPT4C&pg=PA207. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- (German) Macdonald D. : Die Große Enzyklopädie der Säugetiere, Könemann Verlag in der Tandem Verlag GmbH, Königswinter, 2004.
- (German) Detlef Schilling u. a. : BLV Bestimmungsbuch Säugetiere, BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, 1983 ISBN 3-405-12846-3
This page is based on a translation of the corresponding article from the German Wikipedia.
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