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Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Species : Mus triton
The Gray-bellied pygmy mouse is listed as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the graybellied pygmy mouse
A young / baby of a graybellied pygmy mouse is called a 'pinkie, kitten or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A graybellied pygmy mouse group is called a 'nest, colony, harvest, horde or mischief'.Countries
Angola, Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and ZambiaHabitats
Arable Land, Artificial / Terrestrial, Forest, Grassland, Subtropical / Tropical High Altitude Grassland, Subtropical / Tropical Moist Montane and Subtropical / Tropical Seasonally Wet / Flooded Grassland
Facts about the gray-bellied pygmy mouse
Delany (1964) found Mus minutoides to be the only species ubiquitous through all his study sites, in this study Mus minutoides only appeared within the presently grazed habitat whilst Mus triton appeared both of the other habitats, Mus minutoides is thought to be exclusively nocturnal whilst Mus triton is nocturnally and diurnally active (Delany 1974), the results of this study (shown on Table 9) support this conclusion. (Full text)
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