Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758
(House Mouse, Fancy Mouse)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
images
No of
ID refs
 (Click to open)
Subspecies 12 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesMus musculus (House Mouse, Fancy Mouse)
FamilyMURIDAE (mice and rats, small mouse)
OrderRODENTIA (rodents)
ClassMAMMALIA (mammals)
SuperclassTETRAPODA (a superclass of unassigneds)
PhylumCHORDATA (vertebrates)
SuperphylumDEUTEROSTOMIA (deuterostomes)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Flowerdew, J. 1984 Woodmice and Yellow-necked Mice 24pp, The Mammal Society
National Mouse Club Mouse Breeds www.thenationalmouseclub.co.uk/breeds.php
Sterry, P. 2004 House-mouse Vol 16, No 2 Page: 121

Mus musculus (House Mouse, Fancy Mouse) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Mus musculus (House Mouse, Fancy Mouse)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 12 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Mus musculus (House Mouse, Fancy Mouse)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)