🐭House mouse
De huismuis (Mus musculus) is een knaagdier uit de familie Muridae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1758 gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus. De huismuis is, net als de stadsduif en de zwarte en bruine rat, een cultuurvolger met een kosmopolitische verspreiding. Hierdoor zijn de huismuis en de bruine rat de knaagdieren met de grootste verspreiding.
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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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