Apodemus is the genus of Muridae (true mice and rats) which contains the Eurasian field mice. Related to the Ryūkyū spiny rats (Tokudaia) and the prehistoric Rhagamys - and far more distantly to Mus and Malacomys -, it includes the following species:

• Striped Field Mouse, Apodemus agrarius
• Alpine Field Mouse, Apodemus alpicola
• Small Japanese Field Mouse, Apodemus argenteus
• Chevrier's Field Mouse, Apodemus chevrieri
• South China Field Mouse, Apodemus draco
• Yellow-necked Mouse, Apodemus flavicollis - includes A. arianus
• Himalayan Field Mouse, Apodemus gurkha
• Caucasus Field Mouse, Apodemus hyrcanicus
• Sichuan Field Mouse, Apodemus latronum
• Broad-toothed Field Mouse, Apodemus mystacinus
• Western Broad-toothed Field Mouse, Apodemus (mystacinus) epimelas
• Ward's Field Mouse, Apodemus pallipes
• Korean Field Mouse, Apodemus peninsulae
• Black Sea Field Mouse, Apodemus ponticus
• Kashmir Field Mouse, Apodemus rusiges
• Taiwan Field Mouse, Apodemus semotus
• Large Japanese Field Mouse, Apodemus speciosus
• Wood Mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus
• Ural Field Mouse, Apodemus uralensis
• Steppe Field Mouse, Apodemus witherbyi

Prhistoric species that have been described from fossil remains include:

• Apodemus gorafensis (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Italy)
• Apodemus dominans (Kolzoi 1959)

Footnotes

References

• (2005): Superfamily Muroidea. In: : Mammal Species of the World - a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference: 894-1531. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• (2005): Multigene phylogeny of the Old World mice, Murinae, reveals distinct geographic lineages and the declining utility of mitochondrial genes compared to nuclear genes. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 37(2): 370-388. PDF fulltext