Hairst moose
| Hairst moose | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Faimily: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Micromys |
| Species: | M. minutus |
| Binomial name | |
| Micromys minutus Pallas, 1771
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| Hairst moose range | |
The hairst moose (Micromys) is a smaw mammal o the order rodentia hamelt tae Europe an Asie. It is a kyne o moose. It can be fand in fiels o cereal crops, lyke as wheat an aits, in rods or in ither siclyke heich come, lyke lang girse an hedgins. It haes moorit fur wae a whyte wame an a nakit tail nor gies it heise in spielin; heth it is the ainly European ainimal whilk hale yaises its tail as a lith. It is the smawest European rodent; an adult micht ainly wecht as 4 gram (0.14 oz). Hairst moose big bool-ests, sae lyke thon o birds, cannily wrocht frae girse an bun tae stems alaft.
Belangin tae the subfaimily Murinae, the genus isnae near sib tae ony ither murine genus[2] an haes twa yet leevin species. Micromys minutus, kent as the European hairst moose is the mair routh o the twa species o Micromys, the ither mair sucken is Micromys erythrotis bidin in Vietnam an Soothren China (an aiblins kintras they hae mairch wae).[3] Fossils o Micromys date back tae the Late Miocene an include at least 10 extinct species, formin twathry lineages.[4]
Description
eeditThe hairst moose ranges frae 55 tae 75 millimetre (2.2 tae 3.0 in) lang, an its tail frae 50 tae 75 millimetre (2.0 tae 3.0 in) lang; it wechts frae 4 tae 11 gram (0.14 tae 0.39 oz),[5][6] or aboot hauf the wecht o the hoose moose (Mus musculus). The een an lugs are lairge affaerin tae its lenth. It haes a smaw neb, wae cuttie, stibble wuskers, an a thick, saft fur.[7]
Geographie
eeditM. minutus bides ootthro Europe an Northren Asie, rangin frae Northwast Spain throu the maist feck o Europe, athort Siberie tae Korea, north tae aboot 65 degree in Russia, sooth tae the northren edge o Mongolie. Thare are populations in Soothren China forby, thro the Yunnan aurie.[8]
References
eedit- ↑ Kryštufek, B.; Lunde, D.P.; Meinig, H.; Aplin, K.; Batsaikhan, N.; Henttonen, H. (2019). "Micromys minutus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (in Inglis). 2019: e.T13373A119151882.
- ↑ Musser & Carleton 2005, pp. 1383–1384.
- ↑ Abramov, Meschersky & Rozhnov 2009, p. 58.
- ↑ Musser & Carleton 2005, p. 1384.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 19 November 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2004.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Arkive: Micromys minutus". Archived frae the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
- ↑ Ivaldi, Francesca. "Micromys minutus". Retrieved 28 Mey 2009.
- ↑ Wilson & Reeder 2005.