#0515 · 🦊 mammals
Northern Meadow Jumping Mouse
🇳🇱 Graslandhuppelmuis ·Zapus hudsonius
📍 Kenora District, ON, Canada
📍 Cox Creek Pkwy, Florence, AL, US
📍 Quonochontaug, RI 02813, USA
📍 Algonquin Provincial Park, Nipissing, Unorganized, South Part, ON, CA
📍 Ozaukee County, WI, USA
📍 AK, US
📍 Tallmadge, OH, USA
📍 MN-77 N, Burnsville, MN, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Marlo Perdicas · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Ezra Schwartzberg · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. Kenora District, ON, Canada:© J. Burke Korol · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Cox Creek Pkwy, Florence, AL, US:© Nick Sharp · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Quonochontaug, RI 02813, USA:© rando_boyo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Algonquin Provincial Park, Nipissing, Unorganized, South Part, ON, CA:© Shane Smits · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Ozaukee County, WI, USA:© Matthew Drollinger · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. AK, US:© Smith Family · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Tallmadge, OH, USA:© Jerry Cannon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. MN-77 N, Burnsville, MN, US:© Sue Mansfield · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The meadow jumping mouse ( Zapus hudsonius ) is the most widely distributed mouse in the subfamily Zapodinae. Its range extends from the Atlantic coast in the east to the Great Plains west, and from the arctic tree lines in Canada and Alaska to the north, and Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, and New Mexico to the south. In mid-2014, the New Mexico subspecies of the meadow jumping mouse, Zapus hudsonius luteus , was listed as an endangered species under the...
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.
- 1,731 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1780 (246 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Northern Meadow Jumping Mouse
- Nederlands
- Graslandhuppelmuis
- scientific name
- Zapus hudsonius
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Zapodidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,731
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 0.8 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1780 by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43840, Wikidata Q1761993, GBIF 2439467, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.