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Micromys minutus   British Wildlife Centre🐭

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SpeciesRodentiaMuridae
Mammals

🐭Eurasian harvest mouse

Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771)

فأر الحصاد الأوروآسيوي (الاسم العلمي Micromys minutus)، أصغر أنواع الجرذان وأرشقها، تتسلق الاشجار والجدران وتعوم في الماء. موطنها أوروبا وآسيا وشرق الاوسط. طولها نحو 7 سم. وذنبها كذلك.اذناها مستديرتان صغيرتان. عيناها جاحظتان. ثوبها إلى الصهبة الصفراء يعبق مع اقترابه من ثبج الظهر وقمة الرأس ويبيض عند الصدر والبطن. حراشف ذنبها تبلغ 150. اطباء الانثى 8. تألف المراعي والحقول المزدرعة والمقاصب والبيادر قوتها جميع المواد النباتية والعضوية.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/8,620th of your weight
Also called
Harvest mouse
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.01 kg
Body length
0.07 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian harvest mouse

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.01 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.01 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.07 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
0.29 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
5 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 3.8 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
1.38 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
37 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
20 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 20 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 5
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 5.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eurasian harvest mouse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusMicromys
  7. ›speciesMicromys minutus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. suborderMyomorpha
  4. familyMuridae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderMyomorpha
  13. familyMuridae
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What it eats
seeds and grain40%
insects and other invertebrates30%
leaves, roots and other plants30%
In other languages
Badylarka pospolita (pl), Rat des moissons (fr), עכברון הקמה (he), 멧밭쥐 (ko), Micromys minutus (es), törpeegér (hu) … and 23 more languages
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