Altai birch mouse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sminthidae |
Genus: | Sicista |
Species: | S. napaea
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Binomial name | |
Sicista napaea
Hollister, 1912
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The Altai birch mouse (Sicista napaea) is a species of rodent in the family Sminthidae. It is native to Russia and Kazakhstan. [1] A baby Altai birch mouse is called a 'pinkie, kitten or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A Altai birch mouse group is called a 'nest, colony, harvest, horde or mischief'. [2]