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SpeciesRodentiaMuridae
Mammals

🐭Eurasian harvest mouse

Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771)

Badylarka pospolita (Micromys minutus) – gatunek ssaka z podrodziny myszy (Murinae) w obrębie rodziny myszowatych (Muridae), występujący w Eurazji.

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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

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  • 3.8 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
1.38 years
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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
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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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