Yellow-necked mouse
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| Yellow-necked mouse | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Superfamily: | Muroidea |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Apodemus |
| Species: | A. flavicollis |
| Binomial name | |
| Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) |
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Apodemus arianus |
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The yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) is closely related to the wood mouse, with which it was long confused, only being recognised as a separate species in 1894. It differs in its band of yellow fur around the neck and in having slightly larger ears and usually being slightly larger overall. Around 100mm in length, it can climb trees and sometimes overwinters in houses. It is found mostly in mountainous areas of southern Europe, but extends north into parts of Scandinavia and Britain. It is a critical host in the maintenance of tick-borne encephalitis[citation needed]. Other common names are yellow-necked field mouse, yellow-necked wood mouse, and South China field mouse.[1]
References [edit]
- ^ Murray Wrobel: Elsevier’s Dictionary of Mammals. Elsevier 2006, ISBN 978-0-444-51877-4.
- Amori (1996). Apodemus flavicollis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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