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St Kilda house mouse information


St Kilda house mouse
Conservation status
Extinct (c. 1930)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Mus
Species:
M. musculus
Subspecies:
M. m. muralis
Trinomial name
Mus musculus muralis
Barrett-Hamilton, 1899

The St Kilda house mouse (Mus musculus muralis) is an extinct subspecies of the house mouse found only on the islands of the St Kilda archipelago of northwest Scotland.[1] They were first described, alongside the St Kilda field mouse, by natural historian Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton in 1899.[2]

  1. ^ Barrett-Hamilton, GEH (1899). "On the Species of the Genus Mus inhabiting St. Kilda". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 77–88.
  2. ^ "Specimen of the week 339: The St Kilda mice | UCL Museums & Collections Blog". blogs.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2019.

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