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Taxon: Genus Mus Linnaeus, 1758 - mice (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia - (Family) Muridae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Rodentiaformes (Clade) Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 101).

Original position

Glires (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Murinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788

Original entries

Mus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758
Mus avellanarius Linnaeus, 1758
Mus cricetus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus jaculus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus lemmus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus leporinus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus longipes Linnaeus, 1758, nom. dub.
Mus marmota Linnaeus, 1758
Mus monax Linnaeus, 1758
Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus porcellus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus rattus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus striatus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus, 1758
Mus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758
Mus volans Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent entries

Myotalpa (Subgenus) R. Kerr, 1792

Current position

Murinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 164.

Alternative positions

Glires (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 79.

Historical positions

Murinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 164.
Murinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 622.
Murinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 191.
Chordata (Phylum) Bateson, 1885 Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 239. [rough position]
Murinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1049.
Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Murinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 589.
Glires (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 27, 79.
Glires (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 19, 59.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 39s;10ss
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 39s
1993 G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton [38s]
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [37s]
1982 A.F. DeBlase 24s
1758 C. Linnaeus [16s]
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