Mayor's mouse

Mayor's mouse
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Mus
Species:	M. mayori
Binomial name
	Mus mayori; (Thomas, 1915)
Subspecies
	Mus mayori mayori; Mus mayori pococki

Mus mayori is a species of rodent in the genus Mus, the mice. Its common names include Mayor's mouse, highland rat,^[1] and spiny mouse.^[2] It is endemic to Sri Lanka.^[1]

This mouse lives in tropical and subtropical forest types and wet grassland habitat. It is fossorial, seeking shelter by digging burrows. It is nocturnal.^[1]

This species is widespread in parts of Sri Lanka but it faces a number of threats, including deforestation and domestic cats.^[1]

There are two subspecies, M. m. mayori and M. m. pococki. A recent study catalogued the parasites associated with subspecies pococki: a mite of genus Echinolaelaps, a tick of genus Ixodes, and the sucking louse Polyplax spinulosa.^[3] A new species of pseudoscorpion was found on the mouse, described, and named Megachernes kanneliyensis.^[4] The mouse also carries the native Sri Lankan flea Stivalius phoberus.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e de A. Goonatilake, W., et al. Mus mayori. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. Downloaded on 07 January 2016.
^ Wijesinghe, M. R. Predicting effects of rainforest fragmentation from live trapping studies of small mammals in Sri Lanka.^{[permanent dead link]} Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(6): 2629-2636.
^ Ratnaweera, P. B., et al. (2010). Parasitic associations of a threatened Sri Lankan rainforest rodent, Mus mayor pococki (Rodentia: Muridae).^{[permanent dead link]} Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2(6), 901-907.
^ Harvey, M. S., et al. (2012). A new species of the pseudoscorpion genus Megachernes (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) associated with a threatened Sri Lankan rainforest rodent, with a review of host associations of Megachernes. Journal of Natural History, 46(41-42), 2519-2535.
^ Yathramullage, S., Meegaskumbura, M., and Meegaskumbura, S. (2014). Record of five new endemic small mammal hosts for four ectoparasite species from Sri Lanka. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 17 473-476.

External links

Wilson, D. E. & Reeder, D. M. Mus (Coelomys) mayori. Mammal Species of the World. Third Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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[iucn-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e de A. Goonatilake, W., et al. Mus mayori. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. Downloaded on 07 January 2016.

[2] Wijesinghe, M. R. Predicting effects of rainforest fragmentation from live trapping studies of small mammals in Sri Lanka.^{[permanent dead link]} Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(6): 2629-2636.

[3] Ratnaweera, P. B., et al. (2010). Parasitic associations of a threatened Sri Lankan rainforest rodent, Mus mayor pococki (Rodentia: Muridae).^{[permanent dead link]} Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2(6), 901-907.

[4] Harvey, M. S., et al. (2012). A new species of the pseudoscorpion genus Megachernes (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) associated with a threatened Sri Lankan rainforest rodent, with a review of host associations of Megachernes. Journal of Natural History, 46(41-42), 2519-2535.

[5] Yathramullage, S., Meegaskumbura, M., and Meegaskumbura, S. (2014). Record of five new endemic small mammal hosts for four ectoparasite species from Sri Lanka. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 17 473-476.

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