Species
Mus minutoides
Description
Mus minutoides A. Smith, 1834
It is a widely distributed species in most of sub-Saharan Africa (probably except continuously forested areas in the Congo basin and deserts; Bryja et al. 2014) and it includes specimens from southern Ethiopia, some of which were previously called M. tenellus (Musser & Carleton 2005, Britton-Davidian et al. 2012). There are two other species from the minutoides group (sensu Bryja et al. 2014) in Ethiopia, all of them have very small body size (ca. 5 g) and have been reported under the name M. tenellus (e.g. Yalden et al. 1976, 1996). Whether or not one of them represents true M. tenellus is still under debate (see account of M. tenellus).
Taxonomy
Mus minutoides is a species. It belogs to the Muridae family.
