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Species
Least ConcernMaximum longevity: 3.5 years (captivity)
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Mus spicilegus
- Commons category
- Mus spicilegus
- taxon common name
- Șoarece de mișună
- litter size
- 6.7
- longest observed lifespan
- 3.5
- sequenced genome URL
- www.ensembl.org/Mus_spicilegus
- short name
- M. spicilegus
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Encyclopedic overview
The steppe mouse or mound-building mouse (Mus spicilegus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in grassland and other open areas in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steppe mouse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.