Altai birch mouse
Altai birch mouse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sminthidae |
Genus: | Sicista |
Species: | S. napaea
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Binomial name | |
Sicista napaea Hollister, 1912
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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[]
- ^ a b Tsytsulina, K. 2008. Sicista napaea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 19 April 2015.
- ^ https://thewebsiteofeverything.com/animals/mammals/Rodentia/Dipodidae/Sicista/Sicista-napaea.html
Further reading[]
- Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Family Dipodidae. pp. 871–893 in Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286722260_An_integrative_systematic_revision_of_the_European_southern_birch_mice_Rodentia_Sminthidae_Sicista_subtilis_group
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Sicista
- Mammals of Russia
- Mammals of Central Asia
- Mammals described in 1912
- Rodent stubs