Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Mammalia > Order: Rodentia > Family: Muridae > Genus: Apodemus > Species: Apodemus mystacinus

Rock mouse - Apodemus mystacinus (Danford & Alston, 1877)

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Quick facts

Threat status Europe	Least Concern (IUCN)
Most preferred habitats	grassland heathland and shrub sparsely vegetated land
The EUNIS species component has very limited information about this species. The main focus of the EUNIS species component is to provide relevant information about the European species protected by Directives, Conventions and Agreements. The species assessed in the European Red Lists prepared by the IUCN for the European Commission are also included. See here what is Europe from a geographical point of view. Other resources available below may have more information.

Threat status Europe

Least Concern (IUCN)

Most preferred habitats

grassland
heathland and shrub
sparsely vegetated land

The EUNIS species component has very limited information about this species.

The main focus of the EUNIS species component is to provide relevant information about the European species protected by Directives, Conventions and Agreements. The species assessed in the European Red Lists prepared by the IUCN for the European Commission are also included.

See here what is Europe from a geographical point of view.

Other resources available below may have more information.

Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Least Concern

Europe

Least Concern

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

Sources:

EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Not listed in legal texts

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Bergmus	Norwegian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Felsenmaus	German	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Kalliohiiri	Finnish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Kaya faresi	Turkish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Klippemus	Danish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Klippmus	Swedish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Kraška miš	Slovenian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Krški miš	Croatian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Miu i shkembit	Albanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Mulot rupestre	French	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Myšice krasová	Czech	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Ratón balcánico	Spanish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Rock mouse	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Rotsmuis	Dutch	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Ryšavka fúzatá	Slovak	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Szirti erdeiegér	Hungarian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Topo selvatico greco	Italian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.

No synonyms available.

Other resources

EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search	National Center for Biotechnology Information
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

External data

No external data sets available for this species

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