Talk:African pygmy mouse

Headline text
it a small little mammle that is only 8 inches and its tail is 20 cm that the smallest mammle and lives at afriac and called the pygmy mouse...

Scientific name
Does anyone know which species African Pygmy Mouse actually refers to as there are 3 different redirects to this page:


 * Mus minutoides
 * Mus kasaicus
 * Mus musculoides

I'm going to cancel the redirects until we can work out which one is correct. Andrewself (talk) 11:45, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The page currently refers to all three, but M. musculoides clearly warrants its own page. It's one of the older rodent pages and appears to have applied a taxonomy based on something other than the Mammal Species of the World series (as even vol. 2 splits it from minutoides).  The two are hard to tell apart, but are basically separated by geography.  I don't see a reason to split kasaicus unless you have a reference for a modern revision.  MSW3 treats it as a synonym of musculoides.  Even IUCN is not recognizing it. I don't think a one sentence page saying that X species is  a mouse from Africa helps, but I'd encourage you (or others) to make a separate page for M. musculoides.  At that point, this (muinutoides page should probably be moved to Southern African Pygmy Mouse.  --Aranae (talk) 14:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)