Mus is a subgenus of the rodent genus Mus.

Mus (Mus)
House mouse (Mus musculus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Mus
Subgenus: Mus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Mus musculus[1][2]
Linnaeus, 1758

Species

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Phylogeny

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The following phylogeny of Mus is from Barbara Lundrigan and colleagues' 2002 paper in Systematic Biology.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Hemming, Francis, ed. (1958) [1910]. "Opinion 16. The Status of Prebinomial Specific Names (Published Prior to 1758) Under Art. 30d". Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1 (B): 37.
  2. ^ Oldfield, Thomas (1911). "The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnæus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1911 (1): 146. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1911.tb06995.x.
  3. ^ Lundrigan, Barbara L.; Jansa, Sharon A.; Tucker, Priscilla K.; Sullivan, Jack (2002). "Phylogenetic Relationships in the Genus Mus, Based on Paternally, Maternally, and Biparentally Inherited Characters". Systematic Biology. 51 (3): 410–431. doi:10.1080/10635150290069878. PMID 12079642.