Striped Field Mouse
Apodemus agrarius (Pallas, 1771)
Also calledBrandmaus (deu) · Brandmuis (nld) · Brandmus (swe) · Brandmus (dan) · Brandmús (isl) · Brannmus (nor) · Brannmus (nob) · Dimasta miš (slv) · Dirvinė Pelė (lit) · Juttselg-hiir (est) · Mulot rayé (fra) · Mysz polna (pol) · Myszarka polna (pol) · Myšice temnopásá (ces)
First described in: Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs. vol.1 p.454
The striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) is a rodent in the family Muridae. The range of this species stretches from Eastern Europe to Eastern Asia.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution: Widely distributed in Europe and Asia including in the Northern Myanmar.
Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist
discussion
Discussion: Apodemus group. Most closely related to A. chevrieri as reflected by morphology (see that account). Phylogenetic analyses of mtDNA cytochrome b and nuclear IRBP sequences clearly identified A. chevrieri and A. agrarius as sister-species that are part of a larger clade composed of A. peninsulae, A. draco, A. semotus, A. latronum, and A. speciosus, which represents an evolutionary radiation separate from that producing the Japanese A. argenteus and Nepalese A. gurkha (Liu et al., 2004; Suzuki et al., 2003). Noteworthy morphological studies bearing on systematics of European populations are: seasonal changes in gut morphology, and the relationships between allozyme heterozygosity and gut morphology (Borkowska, 1995; Borkowska and Ratkiewicz, 1996); research on the thymus (Bazan-Kubik and Skrzypiec, 1992); and comparisons between postnatal development of German A. agrarius and A. sylvaticus (Pelz et al., 1996). Age and geographic variation in Eurasian, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Bulgarian, and Yugolavian populations documented by results from morphometric analyses (Koh, 1983, 1991; Koh and Tikhonova, 1998; Koh et al., 1997, 1998 a, b; Kryštufek, 1985 b; Liu et al., 1991; Siko
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: Palearctic and Oriental regions in two disjunct segments. One from C Europe (from S Finland, Baltic region, through Poland and C Germany to NE Italy and through the Balkan countries to Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkish Thrace; Mitchell-Jones et al., 1999; Petrov, 1992; Vohralík, 1992; Vohralík and Sofianidou, 1992 b) east to the Caucasus, parts of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and west of Lake Baikal region and adjacent Mongolia and NW China (Xinjiang). The other portion from the Amur River region in far E Russia extending through Korea (including some offshore islands) and westward through China from northern reaches of Nei Mongol and Heilongjiang in the northeast to W Yunnan (Wang, 2003; Zhang et al., 1997); also in the small Senkaku Isl group of Japan (Kaneko, 1994) and on Taiwan (M. - J. Yu, 1996). Expansion of geographic range due to anthropogenic pressures reported by Karaseva et al. (1992).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
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Type Locality: Russia, Ulianovsk Obl., middle Volga River, Ulianovsk (formerly Simbirsk).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
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Description
The upper parts of the striped field mouse are grayish brown with a rusty tint with a prominent mid-dorsal black stripe. The under parts are paler and grayish. The ears and eyes are relatively small. The body length reaches 126 mm, with a tail of up to 90 mm, and it weighs up to 50 g.
Range & habitat
The striped field mouse has an extensive but disjunct distribution, split into two ranges. The first reaches from central and eastern Europe to Lake Baikal (Russia) in the north, and China in the south. The second includes parts of the Russian Far East and from there reaches from Mongolia to Japan. Its expansion across Eastern Europe appears to be relatively recent; the species is thought to have reached Austria in the 1990s. The striped field mouse inhabits a wide range of habitats including the edges of woodlands, grasslands and marshes, pastures and gardens, and urban areas. In the winter, it may be found in haystacks, storehouses, and dwellings.
What it does
The striped field mouse excavates a short burrow with a nesting chamber at a shallow depth. It is nocturnal during the summer, but mainly diurnal in the winter. Its diet varies and includes green parts of plants, roots, seeds, berries, nuts, and insects. Three to five broods are born in a year with an average of six young per litter and the population can build up rapidly in a good season. Limiting factors include frequent torrential rains during a warm season, early soil freezing, and predation.
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