Mus domesticus Rutty, 1772

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 504-560 : 532

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353037

DOI

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scientific name

Mus domesticus Rutty, 1772
status

 

Mus domesticus Rutty, 1772 View in CoL . Essay Nat. Hist. Co. Dublin, 1:281.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ireland, Dublin .

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, W. and S. of Elbe River; N. Africa; east through deserts of Iran and Pakistan to Himalayas. Introduced to the British Isles, Americas, and Australia.

COMMENT: Includes bactrianus, brevirostris, homourus, and praetextus; see Marshall and Sage, 1981, Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond., 47:19-20, who considered domesticus distinct from musculus .

Marshall, J. T., Jr., and R. D. Sage. 1981. Taxonomy of the house mouse. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 47: 15 - 25.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Mus