#0168 · 🦊 mammals
Mound-building Mouse
🇳🇱 Steppemuis ·Mus spicilegus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Mikhail Rusin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Mikhail Rusin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Oleksandr Gaidash · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Oleksandr Gaidash · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Oleksandr Gaidash · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Сергей · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Roman · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Zolotukhina Irina · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The steppe mouse or mound-building mouse ( Mus spicilegus ) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in grassland and other open areas in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 402 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Mound-building Mouse
- Nederlands
- Steppemuis
- scientific name
- Mus spicilegus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Muridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 225
- sightings worldwide
- 402
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Muridae
#0013 📷 9Brown Rat
🇳🇱 Bruine Rat
Rattus norvegicus
LC 👀 303 in NL
#0018 📷 9European Wood Mouse
🇳🇱 Gewone bosmuis
Apodemus sylvaticus
LC 👀 156 in NL
#0019 📷 8House Mouse
🇳🇱 Huismuis
Mus musculus
LC 👀 151 in NL
#0031 📷 10Eurasian Harvest Mouse
🇳🇱 Dwergmuis
Micromys minutus
LC 👀 29 in NL
#0059 📷 10Yellow-necked Field Mouse
🇳🇱 Grote bosmuis
Apodemus flavicollis
LC 👀 3 in NL
#0087 📷 9Black Rat
🇳🇱 Zwarte Rat
Rattus rattus
LC 🌍 18.7k seen
#0106 📷 10Striped Field Mouse
🇳🇱 Brandmuis
Apodemus agrarius
LC 🌍 5.3k seen
#0410 📷 10Rakali
🇳🇱 Australische Beverrat
Hydromys chrysogaster
LC 🌍 2.9k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 44702, Wikidata Q962616, GBIF 2438805, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.