Apodemus

Taxobox
name = Old World field mice
fossil_range = Late Miocene - Recent


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Wood Mouse, "Apodemus sylvaticus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Eutheria
superordo = Euarchontoglires
ordo = Rodentia
subordo = Myomorpha
superfamilia = Muroidea
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
tribus = Apodemurini
genus = "Apodemus"
genus_authority = Kaup, 1829
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = About 20, see text

"Apodemus" is the genus of Muridae (true mice and rats) which contains the Eurasian field mice. Related to the Ryūkyū spiny rats ("Tokudaia") and the prehistoric "Rhagamys" - and far more distantly to "Mus" and "Malacomys" [Steppan "et al." (2005)] -, it includes the following species:

*Striped Field Mouse, "Apodemus agrarius"
*Alpine Field Mouse, "Apodemus alpicola"
*Small Japanese Field Mouse, "Apodemus argenteus"
*Chevrier's Field Mouse, "Apodemus chevrieri"
*South China Field Mouse, "Apodemus draco"
*Yellow-necked Mouse, "Apodemus flavicollis" - includes "A. arianus"
*Himalayan Field Mouse, "Apodemus gurkha"
*Caucasus Field Mouse, "Apodemus hyrcanicus"
*Sichuan Field Mouse, "Apodemus latronum"
*Broad-toothed Field Mouse, "Apodemus mystacinus"
**Western Broad-toothed Field Mouse, "Apodemus (mystacinus) epimelas"
*Ward's Field Mouse, "Apodemus pallipes"
*Korean Field Mouse, "Apodemus peninsulae"
*Black Sea Field Mouse, "Apodemus ponticus"
*Kashmir Field Mouse, "Apodemus rusiges"
*Taiwan Field Mouse, "Apodemus semotus"
*Large Japanese Field Mouse, "Apodemus speciosus"
*Wood Mouse, "Apodemus sylvaticus"
*Ural Field Mouse, "Apodemus uralensis"
*Steppe Field Mouse, "Apodemus witherbyi"

Prhistoric species that have been described from fossil remains include:
* "Apodemus gorafensis" (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Italy)Verify source|date=January 2008
* "Apodemus dominans" (Kolzoi 1959)

Footnotes

References

* (2005): Superfamily Muroidea. "In:" aut|D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds: "Mammal Species of the World - a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference": 894-1531. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
* (2005): Multigene phylogeny of the Old World mice, Murinae, reveals distinct geographic lineages and the declining utility of mitochondrial genes compared to nuclear genes. "Mol. Phylogenet. Evol." 37(2): 370-388. doi|10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.016 [http://bio.fsu.edu/~steppan/Steppan_etal_Murinae_2005.pdf PDF fulltext]