Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zootaxa 4522 (1), pp. 1-216 : 184-185

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571535

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Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758
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Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL View at ENA —House Mouse

Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 p.62 View in CoL View Cited Treatment ; Type locality- Uppsala, Sweden; Jones & Johnson, 1965 p.393; Won, 1968 p.178; Corbet, 1978 p.141; Han, 1994 p.47; Won & Smith, 1999 p.27; Han, 2004c p.121.

M. molossinus Temminck and Schlegel View in CoL in Siebold, 1842 p.51; Type locality- Japan; Won, 1967 p.249.

M. kambei Kishida and Mori, 1931 p.378 View in CoL (Nomen nudum).

M. takagii Kishida and Mori, 1931 p.378 (Nomen nudum).

M. bactrianus yamashinai Kuroda, 1934a p.234 View in CoL ; Type locality- Mokpo, Korea; Kuroda, 1938 p.74.

M. molossinus utsuryonis Mori, 1938 p.17 ; Type locality- Ulleung (Utsuro) Island, Korea.

M. musculus molossinus: Ellerman, 1941 p.248 View in CoL ; Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.606; Jones & Johnson, 1965 p.395; Won, 1968 p.178; Jo et al., 2012 p.252.

M. musculus yamashiani: Ellerman, 1941 p.248 ; Won, 1958 p.449; Jones & Johnson, 1965 p.395.

M. musculus utsuryonis: Won, 1958 p.450 ; Won & Woo, 1958 p.88; Jones & Johnson, 1965 p.395.

M. musculus musculus: Yoon, 1992 p.86 View in CoL .

Range: Often house mice occur arable lands, pastures, coastal sand dunes, salt marshes and scrubby road verges ( Macdonald & Barrett 1993). However, feral house mice are extremely rare in Korea ( Won 1967). On the Korean Peninsula and islands, the distribution of M. musculus is closely associated with human habitations ( Jo et al. 2012; Fig. 126 View FIGURE 126 ).

Remarks: Suzuki et al. (2013) identified five distinct clades of house mouse; musculus in northern Eurasia; castanes in India and southeast Asia; an unspecified Nepali clade; domesticus in western Europe; and gentilulus in Yemen. Populations from Korea belong to the musculus clade. House mice in Korea originate from multiple and non-coincidental dispersals from the West ( Suzuki et al. 2013). Three subspecies, M. m. yamashinai Kuroda, 1934 on the peninsula, M. m. molossinus Temminck, 1845 on Jeju Island and M. m. utsuryonis Mori, 1938 on Ulleung Island, have been described from Korea. Some taxa hybridize with different subspecies, including the Japanese house mouse (M. m. molossinus ) ( Yonekawa et al. 1998). DNA analysis supported either M. m. molossinus or M. m. musculus as the primary subspecies of house mouse for all of northeastern Asia, including Korea, northern China and Japan and therefore, Korean house mice are polymorphic ( Yonekawa et al. 1998, Musser & Carleton 2005).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Mus

Loc

Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L. 2018
2018
Loc

M. musculus musculus:

Yoon 1992:
1992
Loc

M. musculus utsuryonis:

Jones & Johnson 1965:
Won 1958:
1958
Loc

M. musculus molossinus:

Jo 2012:
Won 1968:
Jones & Johnson 1965:
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott 1951:
Ellerman 1941:
1941
Loc

M. musculus yamashiani:

Jones & Johnson 1965:
Won 1958:
Ellerman 1941:
1941
Loc

M. molossinus utsuryonis

Mori 1938:
1938
Loc

M. bactrianus yamashinai

Kuroda 1938:
Kuroda 1934:
1934
Loc

M. kambei

Kishida and Mori 1931:
1931
Loc

M. takagii

Kishida and Mori 1931:
1931
Loc

M. molossinus

Won 1967:
Siebold 1842:
1842
Loc

Mus musculus

Han 2004:
Won & Smith 1999:
Han 1994:
Corbet 1978:
Won 1968:
Jones & Johnson 1965:
Linnaeus 1758:
1758
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