Mouse and Rat Species

All mice are the member of Mus genus. Mouse can be applied to other rat species out of mus genus. All mouse and rat are include in muroid rodent, mouse refer to small muroid rodent while rat refer to larger muroid rodent. Rodent that belonging to Mus genus are described on below:

Genus Mus – typical mice:
- Subgenus Coelomys

• Sumatran Shrewlike Mouse, Mus crocideroides (Western Sumatra)
• Major’s Mouse, Mus mayori (Sri Lanka)
• Gairdner’s Shremouse, Mus Pohari (Northeastern India to southwestern Cambodia and northern Vietnam)
• Volcano Mouse, Mus vulcani (Western Java)

- Mus Lepodoides species group

• Mus lepidoides

- Subgenus Mus

• Little Indian Field Mouse, Mus booduga (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, southern Nepal, central Myanmar)
• Ryukyu Mouse, Mus caroli (Ryukyu islands, Taiwan and southern China to Thailand; introduced in Malaysia and western Indonesia)
• Fawn colored Mouse, Mus cervicolor (Northtern India to Vietnam; introduced to Sumatra and Java)
• Cook’s Mouse, Mus cookie (Southern and northeastern India and Nepal to Vietnam)
• Cypriot Mouse, Mus cypriacus (Cyprus)
• Mus majorus (Athens, Greece)
• Servant Mouse, Mus famulus (Southwestern India)
• Sheath tailed Mouse, Mus fragilicaudia (Thailand and Laos)
• Macedonia Mouse, Mus macedonicus (Balkan to Israel and Iran)
• House Mouse, Mus musculus (introduced worldwide)
• Mus nitidulus (Central Myanmar)
• Steppe Mouse, Mus spicilegus (Austria to southern Ukraine and Greece)
• Algerian Mouse, Mus spretus (Southern France, Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, Morocco to Tunisia)
• Earth colored Mouse, Mus terricolor (India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Introduced to Sumatra)

- Subgenus Nannomys – sub Saharan Africa

• Baole’s Mouse, Mus baonlei (Ivory Coast to Guinea)
• Toad Mouse, Mus bufo (Mountains of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and neighbouring parts of the Democratic of Congo)
• Callewaert’s Mouse, Mus callewaerty (Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Gounda Mouse, Mus goundae (Central African Republic)
• Hausa Mouse, Mus haussa (Senegal to northern Nigeria)
• Desert Pygmy Mouse, Mus indutus (Southern Angola to western Zimbabwe and northern South Africa)
• Mahomet Mouse, Mus Mahomet (Ethiopia, southwestern Uganda and southwestern Kenya)
• Matthey’s Mouse, Mus mattheyi (Ghana)
• African pygmy Mouse, Mus minutoides (zimbabwe, southern Mozambique, South Africa)
• Neave’s Mouse, Mus setulosus (Senegal to Ethiopia and western Kenya)
• Setzer’s Pygmy Mouse, Mus setzeri (northeasthern Namibia, Bostwana, and western Zambia)
• Thomas’s Pygmy Mouse, Mus sorella (Eastern Cameroon to western Tanzania)
• Delicate Mouse, Mus tenellus (Sudan to southern Somalia and central Tanzania)
• Gray Bellied Pygmy Mouse, Mus triton (Southern Ethiopia to central Angola and Malawi)

- Subgenus Pyromys

• Ceylon Spiny Mouse, Mus fernandoni (Sri Lanka)
• Phillips’s Mouse, Mus phillipsi (Southwestern India)
• Flat Haired Mouse, Mus Platythrix (India)
• Rock Loving Mouse, Mus saxicola (Southern Pakistan, southern Nepal, and India)
• Shortridge’s Mouse, Mus shortridgei (Myanmar to southwestern Cambodia and northwestern Vietnam)