Mammals
Rodents
Mice
Sighting 4409570

Mus musculus

House Mouse at Thurgoona, NSW

Mus musculus at Thurgoona, NSW - 9 May 2017 11:43 PM
Mus musculus at Thurgoona, NSW - 9 May 2017 11:43 PM
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Identification history

Mus musculus 25 Nov 2021 WingsToWander
Mus musculus 23 Nov 2021 Darcy

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Older pic from 2017. Mouse caught live in one of the residences at CSU

4 comments

KylieWaldon wrote:
   23 Nov 2021
sure it isn't an antechinus? Doesn't look like the mice I get!
Darcy wrote:
   23 Nov 2021
I dunno? It turned up inside a building, haven't heard of antechinus doing that, but always possible?
KylieWaldon wrote:
   24 Nov 2021
One sneaks inside in Summer at my parents home and partakes the tomatoes ripening on the windowsill (leaving tiny teeth punctures) and then sneaks out by daybreak! They have seen it twice. But will leave it for a mammal person to ID.
WingsToWander wrote:
   25 Nov 2021
Antechinus very much make themselves at home in people's houses, but this is definitely a house mouse based on the lighter coloured fur around the eye ring.

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  • Mus musculus Scientific name
  • House Mouse Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Exotic
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 719.6m Recorded at altitude
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