🐭House mouse
فأر المنازل (اللاتينية: Mus musculus) هو ثديي صغير و قارض. فأر المنزل البالغ له طول جسم (من الأنف حتى قاعدة الذيل) من 7.5 اٍلى 10 سم وطول ذيله من 5 إلى 10 سم، أما وزنه فيتراوح بين 10 و 25 غ. وهو بألوان من بني فاتح حتى الأسود، مع شعر قصير وبطن خفيف، الآذان والذيل قليلة الشعر. ليس من السهل تمييز الذكور من الأناث بين الصغار; الإناث لها بشكل ملحوظ قصر مسافة بين فتحة الشرج وفتحة الجهاز التناسلي. الاٍناث لها 5 أزواج من الغدد الثديية والحلمات؛ ليس للذكور حلمات. عند بلوغها جنسيا أبرز الفروق الواضحة هو وجود الخصيتين عند الذكر.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 0.02 kg
- Body length
- 0.1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 6 years
Everything we know about the House mouse
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.02 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length0.1 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass0.44 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan6 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length1.72 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity65 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation20 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 19 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter sizeabout 6COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 7AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density7,207 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 House mouse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyMuridae
- ›genusMus
- ›speciesMus musculus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderMyomorpha
- familyMuridae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderMyomorpha
- familyMuridae
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