Apodemus

Apodemus is a genus of Muridae (true mice and rats). The name is unrelated to that of the Mus genus, instead being derived from the Greek ἀπό-δημος (literally away from home).

Taxonomy
Related to the Ryūkyū spiny rats (Tokudaia) and the prehistoric Rhagamys – and far more distantly to Mus and Malacomys – it includes these species:

Apodemus sensu stricto

 * Striped field mouse, A. agrarius
 * Small Japanese field mouse, A. argenteus
 * Chevrier's field mouse, A. chevrieri

Alsomys

 * South China field mouse, A. draco
 * Himalayan field mouse, A. gurkha
 * Sichuan field mouse, A. latronum
 * Korean field mouse, A. peninsulae
 * Taiwan field mouse, A. semotus
 * Large Japanese field mouse, A. speciosus

Sylvaemus

 * Alpine field mouse, A. alpicola
 * Yellow-necked mouse, A. flavicollis – includes A. arianus
 * Caucasus field mouse, A. hyrcanicus
 * Ward's field mouse, A. pallipes
 * Black Sea field mouse, A. ponticus
 * Wood mouse, A. sylvaticus
 * Ural field mouse, A. uralensis
 * Pygmy field mouse, A. u. microps
 * Cimrman Ural field mouse, A. u. cimrmani
 * Steppe field mouse, A. witherbyi

Karstomys

 * Western broad-toothed field mouse, A. epimelas
 * Eastern broad-toothed field mouse, A. mystacinus
 * Kashmir field mouse, A. rusiges

Incertae sedis

 * Apodemus avicennicus Darvish, Javidkar & Siahsarvie, 2006

Prehistoric species described from fossil remains include:
 * A. gorafensis (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Italy)
 * A. dominans (Kolzoi 1959)