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#0181 · 🦊 mammals

Algerian Mouse

🇳🇱 Algerijnse Muis ·Mus spretus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL
Algerian Mouse, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Álvaro Alemany · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Algerian mouse , or western Mediterranean mouse , ( Mus spretus ) is a wild species of mouse closely related to the house mouse, native to open habitats around the western Mediterranean.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 251iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

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.
  • 251 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Algerian Mouse
Nederlands
Algerijnse Muis
scientific name
Mus spretus
class
Mammalia
order
Rodentia
family
Muridae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
101
sightings worldwide
251
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Muridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 44688, Wikidata Q508534, GBIF 2438793, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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