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Mus musculus
Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:138.
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ORDER—RODENTIA
FAMILY—Muridae
COMMON NAME—House
mouse.
DISTRIBUTION—Nearly
worldwide; widespread in Southeast Asia. Found throughout the Philippines;
specimens from Bohol (USNM), Leyte (DMNH), Luzon (Laguna [UPLB] Province),
Maripipi (USNM), and Negros (USNM). Also reported from Mindanao (Davao
del Norte Province) by Barbehenn et al. (1973).
HABITAT—Human
habitations in urban and rural areas, rarely above 100 m elevation (Heaney
et al., in press; Rabor, 1986).
STATUS—Non-native
and abundant.
COMMENT—All
Philippine populations of Mus are now placed in the species M.
musculus (subspecies castaneus) and the species is considered
to be non-native (Marshall, 1977, 1986; Marshall and Sage, 1981).
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