Biology:Altai birch mouse
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Short description: Species of rodent
| Altai birch mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sminthidae |
| Genus: | Sicista |
| Species: | S. napaea
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| Binomial name | |
| Sicista napaea Hollister, 1912
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The Altai birch mouse (Sicista napaea) is a species of rodent in the family Sminthidae. It is native to Russia and Kazakhstan.[1] A baby Altai birch mouse is called a 'pinkie, kitten or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A Altai birch mouse group is called a 'nest, colony, harvest, horde or mischief'.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tsytsulina, K. 2008. Sicista napaea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 19 April 2015.
- ↑ "Altai birch mouse | Sicista napaea facts". https://thewebsiteofeverything.com/animals/mammals/Rodentia/Dipodidae/Sicista/Sicista-napaea.html.
Further reading
- Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Family Dipodidae. pp. 871–893 in Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286722260_An_integrative_systematic_revision_of_the_European_southern_birch_mice_Rodentia_Sminthidae_Sicista_subtilis_group
Wikidata ☰ Q1765635 entry
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