HouseMouse🐭

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SpeciesRodentiaMuridae
Mammals

🐭House mouse

Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758

Ev faresi (Mus musculus), dünyanın insandan (Homo sapiens) sonra en kalabalık nüfusa sahip olduğuna inanılan memelisidir. Hemen daima insanlara çok yakın ortamlarda yaşayan ev faresinden türetilmiş olan laboratuvar fareleri ise hem en sık kullanılan laboratuvar memelisi, hem de biyoloji ve tıpta önemli model canlılardır. Ev faresi depolanmış gıdalara zarar verebilen ve çeşitli hastalık etkenlerini taşıyabilen bir zararlı olarak kabul edilir. Bununla birlikte biyomedikal araştırmalara sağladığı katkılar nedeniyle dünyanın en önemli deney hayvanlarından biridir.

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177
Photos
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Measurements
13
vs you
≈ 1/3,030th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the House mouse

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

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

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  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
0.1 m
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Brain mass
0.44 g
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Maximum lifespan
6 years
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  • 4 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
1.72 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
65 days
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Gestation
20 days
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  • 19 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
about 6
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 7AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Home range
0 km²
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Population density
7,207 per km²
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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 House mouse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusMus
  7. ›speciesMus musculus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. suborderMyomorpha
  4. familyMuridae
All 13 branches ↓
  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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More about the House mouse

Closest relative on this site
🐭 European water vole — last shared an ancestor ≈ 48 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants60%
insects and other invertebrates20%
seeds and grain20%
In other languages
Hausmaus (de), ev faresi (tr), Ποντικός (el), ratón doméstico (es), kotihiiri (fi), souris domestique (fr) … and 27 more languages

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