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Harvest mouse - MICROMYS MINUTUS
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Gnawing Mammals (Rodentia)
Family: Muridae.
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Western Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis)
Species Code: REME
Description: The Western Harvest Mouse's coat is a reddish yellow color with some white on the underside of its belly.
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Harvest mouseMicromys minutus Harvest mice are the smallest British rodent. They are the only Old World mammals to have truly prehensile tails. Life span Up to 18 months.
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Fulvous Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens)
No photo of the Fulvous Harvest Mouse available.
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Western Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis)
No photo of the Western Harvest Mouse available.
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Eastern Harvest Mouse
Order Rodentia : Family Muridae : Reithrodontomys humulis (Audubon and Bachman) ...
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The Fulvous Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens) is a common rodent of parts of the south central United States southward into Central America. Within the U.S.
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The saltmarsh harvest mouse weighs 8 - 14 g (0.3 - 0.5 oz.). It lives in salt marsh characterized by salt marsh herbs, grasses and reeds. Stems and leaves of salt marsh plants are its major food source. Insects and seeds are also eaten occasionally.
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Harvest Mouse Habits Daily Life. Harvest mice are active by day and night. Male mice roam over a territory of about 400 sq m, while females keep to a smaller area.
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Plains Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys montanus (Baird)
Description: The plains harvest mouse is a very small, delicate mammal with pale dull brown upperparts, and yellowish gray and white underparts. The outer ears and flanks are yellowish brown.
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Western Harvest Mouse are adaptable, widespread, and abundant, especially in meadows, prairies, old pastures, stream valleys, and marshes. They eat seeds, insects, and plants.
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Eastern Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis humilis) Golden Mouse (Ochrotomys nuttali) Hispid Cotton Rat (Sigmodon hispidus hispidus) ...
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Eastern Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys humulis. Poorly known. Once common in old fields containing dense stands of weeds and grasses, but may be declining in Alabama. Breeds throughout year, gestation 21-22 days, and litter of two to three.
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Slender harvest mouse Reithrodontomys g. gracilis Mexican deer mouse Peromyscus mexicanus Old World rats and Mice ...
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eastern harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis humulis) eastern harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis virginianus) eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus aquaticus) eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis borealis) eastern small-footed myotis (Myotis leibii) ...
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None are much larger than the brown rat (M. norvegicus) or smaller than the harvest mouse; and they all 'have habits generally similar to those of one or other of the English species, although some live in trees like squirrels, or in the water; ...
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The Old World family Muridae includes the now ubiquitous house mouse, as well as a great variety of wild-living Old World species, including the Old World field mouse, the tiny European harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) and the African tree mice.
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Genus Micromys (Eurasian harvest mouse)
Species Micromys minutus (Eurasian harvest mouse)
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Meanwhile, a harvest mouse eats the seeds, and the calories are passed on. The food chain is lengthened when a rat snake eats the mouse.
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 See also: Mouse, Mice, House Mouse, Weasel, Deer
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