colubrina vs Mound-building Mouse

Echium vulgare compared with Mus spicilegus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank colubrina Mound-building Mouse
Kingdom Plantae (plantas) Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants) Chordata (cordados)
Class Magnoliopsida (Dicots) Mammalia (mamíferos)
Order Boraginales (Boraginales) Rodentia (Roedores)
Family Boraginaceae Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus Echium Mus (House Mice)
Species Echium vulgare Mus spicilegus

Conservation Status

colubrina

LC — Least Concern

Mound-building Mouse

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute colubrina Mound-building Mouse
Diet
Average Lifespan
Average Length
Average Weight

Habitat & Geographic Range

colubrina

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Palearctic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Lesotho, South Africa), Asia (India, Japan, Uzbekistan), Europe (11 countries), North America (Canada, Mexico, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia, New Zealand), and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile).

Mound-building Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

colubrina

The Blue Devil (Echium vulgare) is a species in the genus Echium. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Palearctic biogeographic realm.

Mound-building Mouse

No description available.

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