🐭House mouse
El ratón casero, ratón doméstico o ratón común (Mus musculus) es una especie de roedor miomorfo de la familia Muridae. Es la especie más frecuente de ratón. Se cree que es la segunda especie de mamíferos con mayor número de individuos, después de Homo sapiens. Los ratones saltan sobre sus dos patas traseras. Habita siempre cerca del humano, con el que mantiene una relación de comensalismo. Es también el mamífero más utilizado en experimentos de laboratorio y existen multitud de variantes transgénicas que simulan enfermedades genéticas humanas. Está incluido en la lista 100 de las especies exóticas invasoras más dañinas del mundo de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza.
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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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