Apodemus

Old World field mice
Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent

Wood Mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus

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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^[1] -, 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)^{[verification needed]}
Apodemus dominans (Kolzoi 1959)

[edit] Footnotes

Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. (2005): Superfamily Muroidea. In: 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.
Steppan, S.J.; Adkins, R.M.; Spinks, P.Q. & Hale, C. (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 PDF fulltext