Sicista betulina

(Pallas, 1779)

Northern Birch Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Dipodoidea
Family : Sminthidae
Genus : Sicista

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pallas, P.S. 1779. Fasciculus II. Pp. 71–388 in Pallas, P.S. 1778-1779. Novae species quadrupedum e glirium ordine cum illustrationibus variis complurium ex hoc ordine animalium. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 388 pp.

Original name as described

Mus betulinus

Type locality

River terrace characterized by birch tree groves along Ishim River, Barabinsk Steppe, western Siberia, Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Denmark · Germany · Switzerland · Austria · Czech Republic · Slovakia · Romania · Poland · Ukraine · Moldova · Lithuania · Latvia · Estonia · Norway · Sweden · Finland · Russia · Kazakhstan · Georgia? · Azerbaijan? · Mongolia · China?

Taxonomy notes

moved from Dipodidae to Sminthidae

Taxonomy notes citation

Lebedev, V.S., Bannikova, A.A., Pagès, M., Pisano, J., Michaux, J.R. & Shenbrot, G.I. (2012). Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Dipodoidea: a test of morphology‐based hypotheses. —Zoologica Scripta, 42, 231–249.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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