Apodemus agrarius
(Pallas, 1771)
Striped Field Mouse
Distribution :
Palearctic and Oriental regions in two disjunct segments. One from C Europe (from S Finland, Baltic region, through Poland and C Germany to NE Italy and through the Balkan countries to Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkish Thrace; east to the Caucasus, parts of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and west of Lake Baikal region and adjacent Mongolia and NW China (Xinjiang). The other portion from the Amur River region in far E Russia extending through Korea (including some offshore islands) and westward through China from northern reaches of Nei Mongol and Heilongjiang in the northeast to W Yunnan; also in the small Senkaku Isl group of Japan and on Taiwan.
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Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
| Superfamily | : Muroidea |
| Family | : Muridae |
| Subfamily | : Murinae |
| Tribe | : Apodemini |
| Genus | : Apodemus |
| Subgenus | : Apodemus |
Species status
Authority citation
Pallas, P.S. 1771. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Erster Theil. Kayserliche Academie der Wissenschaften, Saint Petersburg, 504 pp.
Authority publication link
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k973339/f466.itemOriginal name as described
Mus agrarius
Type locality
Ulianovsk, middle Volga River, Russia.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic · Indomalaya
Country distribution
Italy · Denmark · Germany · Czech Republic · Austria · Slovenia · Croatia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Hungary · Slovakia · Serbia · Kosovo · Montenegro · Albania? · North Macedonia · Greece · Bulgaria · Turkey · Romania · Poland · Moldova · Ukraine · Belarus · Lithuania · Latvia · Estonia · Finland · Russia · Georgia · Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan · China · Mongolia · North Korea · South Korea · Taiwan · Myanmar · Japan
Taxonomy notes
a recent molecular study suggested splitting of Apodemus into three genera: Apodemus, Alsomys (including A. agrarius), and Sylvaemus; this revision was based on phylogenies created using cytochrome b sequences that show Apodemus sensu lato as monophyletic, but the three proposed genera as paraphyletic with each other; the authors supported the revision with the deep divergence time between the various clades; however, given that the genus is already monophyletic and that the proposed genera are not reciprocally monophyletic, Apodemus is retained as a single genus here pending more integrative taxonomic research
Taxonomy notes citation
Mezhzherin, S. and Tereshchenko, V. 2023. Taxonomic hierarchy and evolutionary scenario of the genus group Apodemus s. l. (Muridae) of the Palearctic based of genetic differentiation in the cyt-b gene. Zoodiversity 57(1):1-12. doi:10.15407/zoo2023.01.001
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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