Mus haussa (Thomas and Hinton, 1920)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 623

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284473
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scientific name	Mus haussa (Thomas and Hinton, 1920)
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Mus haussa (Thomas and Hinton, 1920) View in CoL . Novit. Zool., 27:319.

TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Farniso .

DISTRIBUTION: Records are from Senegal and S Mauritania through Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, S Niger, and Benin to N Nigeria; limits unknown.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Nannomys . Body size, pelage color and pattern, and other morphological traits of M. haussa are very similar to those of M. tenellus ( Petter, 1963c, 1972a; Rosevear, 1969), and F. Petter (1969) came close to combining them. The relationship between M. haussa and M. tenellus needs to be assessed by systematic revision of the group.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae
Genus	Mus