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Species of rodent
The
southern birch mouse
(
Sicista subtilis
) is a species of
birch mouse
in the family
Sminthidae
.
[2]
It is native to southern
Russia
,
Kazakhstan
, and potentially northern
Mongolia
and
China
.
[3]
[4]
Taxonomy
[
edit
]
The
Hungarian birch mouse
(
S. trizona
) and
Nordmann's birch mouse
(
S. loriger
) were previously thought to be subspecies representing isolated western populations of
S. subtilis
, but phylogenetic and anatomical evidence supports them being distinct species.
[4]
[5]
A 2018 study detected a distinct, previously unknown genetic lineage of
S. subtilis
in the
North Caucasus
.
[6]
Description
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edit
]
The most prominent characteristic of the southern birch mouse is the dark stripe down the center of the back, which is bordered by two narrow bright stripes on both sides. From head to rump it measures from 56 to 72 mm, with a tail from 110 to 130% of the main body length. The background fur color is gray-brown.
Ecology
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edit
]
The southern birch mouse is pronouncedly a
steppe
dweller. It makes a burrow in the summer and
hibernates
. It eats green plants and insects.
[7]
References
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edit
]
- ^
Cserkesz, T. & Kennerley, R. (2017).
"
Sicista subtilis
(errata version published in 2018)"
.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
.
2017
: e.T91934441A123795199.
- ^
Holden, M.E.;
Musser, G.G.
(2005).
"Family Dipodidae"
. In
Wilson, D.E.
; Reeder, D.M. (eds.).
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference
(3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 871?893.
ISBN
978-0-8018-8221-0
.
OCLC
62265494
.
- ^
"Explore the Database"
.
www.mammaldiversity.org
. Retrieved
2021-11-20
.
- ^
a
b
Trust), Rosalind Kennerley (Durrell Wildlife Conservation; Cserkesz, Tamas (2017-05-15).
"IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Sicista subtilis"
.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
.
- ^
Cserkesz, Tamas; Rusin, Mikhail; Sramko, Gabor (2016).
"An integrative systematic revision of the European southern birch mice (Rodentia: Sminthidae, Sicista subtilis group)"
.
Mammal Review
.
46
(2): 114?130.
doi
:
10.1111/mam.12058
.
ISSN
1365-2907
.
- ^
Lebedev, Vladimir; Poplavskaya, Natalia; Bannikova, Anna; Rusin, Mikhail; Surov, Alexey; Kovalskaya, Yulia (2020-03-01).
"Genetic variation in the Sicista subtilis (Pallas, 1773) species group (Rodentia, Sminthidae), as compared to karyotype differentiation"
.
Mammalia
.
84
(2): 185?194.
doi
:
10.1515/mammalia-2018-0216
.
ISSN
1864-1547
.
S2CID
202024134
.
- ^
Andrew T. Smith; Yan Xie (2008).
A guide to the mammals of China
. Princeton University Press. pp. 207?.
ISBN
978-0-691-09984-2
. Retrieved
4 January
2012
.
- (in German)
Macdonald D. :
Die Große Enzyklopadie der Saugetiere
, Konemann Verlag in der Tandem Verlag GmbH, Konigswinter, 2004.
- (in German)
Detlef Schilling u. a. : BLV Bestimmungsbuch Saugetiere, BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, 1983
ISBN
3-405-12846-3
This page is based on a translation of the
corresponding article
from the
German Wikipedia
.
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