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house mouse

species of mammal
Taxon taxon Q83310
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Summary

house mouse is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.28% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,974 views/month, #538 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • IUCN conservation status: Least Concern[4]
  • Parent taxon: Mus[5]
  • Taxon name: Mus musculus[6]
  • Commons category: Mus musculus[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:House mouse[8]
  • Commons gallery: Mus musculus[9]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12[11]
  • Taxon synonym: Mus molossinus yonakuni[12]
  • Short name: Mouse[13], Maus[14], miš[15]
  • Taxon common name: House mouse[16], Ratón Casero[17], Souris domestique[18], Hausmaus[19], Östliche Hausmaus[20], 家鼷鼠[21], kotihiiri[22], ev faresi[23], 小家鼠[24], husmus[25], mure caseru[26], hišna miš[27], ποντίκι[28]
  • Habitat: grassland[29]
  • Minimum frequency of audible sound: 1000 hertz[30]
  • Maximum frequency of audible sound: 91,000 hertz[31]
  • Longest observed lifespan: 4 years[32]

Body

Identifiers

house mouse's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 44705[33]. house mouse's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 10090[34]. house mouse's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 328450[35]. house mouse's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2438780[36]. house mouse's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180366[37].

Discovery and Description

Things named for house mouse include Maus au chocolat[38], a dark ride[39], in Germany[40].

Why It Matters

house mouse has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 125 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for it include Maus au chocolat[38], a dark ride[39], in Germany[40].

Related Entities

Brazil

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [34] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [37] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World. wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . laji.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . China' s mammalian diversity. wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [30] ↑ . How Well Do Dogs and Other Animals Hear?. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  34. [31] ↑ . How Well Do Dogs and Other Animals Hear?. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  35. [32] ↑ . Longer life spans and delayed maturation in wild-derived mice.. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'House mouse'}, {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Ratón Casero'}, {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Souris domestique'} +11
    Invasive to → Q155
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02334808-n
    Interlingual index id → i47803
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  2. 16w ago · TadejM · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'House mouse'}, {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Ratón Casero'}, {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Souris domestique'} +11
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Taxon common name: belosiva hišna miš"
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