WOODPECKER STUDIO(top) > JAPANESE WILD ANIMALS > (5) RODENTIA Muridae
MURIDAE Grey Red-backed Vole |
Body length 11-14cm. Tail length 4-6cm. This vole live in Hokkaido. |
MURIDAE "Mukuge" Red-backed Vole |
Body length 11-14cm. Tail length 4-6cm. This vole is a characteristic species in Japan live in Hokkaido. |
MURIDAE Northern Red-backed Vole |
Body length 8-11cm. Tail length 3-4cm. |
MURIDAE Japanese Red-backed Vole |
Body length 8-13cm. Tail length 5-8cm. This vole live in Honsyu. |
MURIDAE Smith's Red-backed Vole |
Body length 8-12cm. Tail length 3-6cm. This vole live in Honsyu and Shikoku, kyusyu. |
MURIDAE Japanese Field Vole |
Body length 10-14cm. Tail length 3-5cm. This vole live in Honsyu and Kyusyu. |
@ MURIDAE Muskrat (importation kind) |
Body length 25-36cm. Tail length 20-28cm. A kind of family Rodentia from North America Hara. It lives in the water side. |
MURIDAE Harvest Mouse |
Body length 5-8cm. Tail length 6-8cm. This is the smallest mouse in Japan. They make a nest like a bird between the stems of the grass. |
MURIDAE Striped Field Mouse |
Body length 13cm. Tail length 12cm. This mouse live in only Senkaku Islands in Japan. |
MURIDAE Small Japanese Field Mouse (Japanese Geisya Mouse) |
Body length 7-10cm. Tail length 7-11cm. This mouse live in the wood. They are good at the tree climbing. They are a special product of Japan. The English biologist that it was collected for the first time named it "Geisya". |
MURIDAE Korean Field Mouse |
Body length 7-8cm. Tail length 7-9cm. This mouse size is in the middle of Small Japanese Field mouse with Large Japanese Field Mouse. It live in Hokkaido. |
MURIDAE Large Japanese Field Mouse |
Body length 8-14cm. Tail length 7-13cm. This mouse have big ears, big eyes and long tail. It is a typical beautiful mouse like a mouse. |
MURIDAE Brown Rat |
Body length 19-28cm. Tail length 15-22cm. This rat likes the place where it became wet. They breeds in the drain and so on. |
MURIDAE Black Rat |
Body length 15-24cm. Tail length 15-26cm. This rat likes the place where it dried. The number increases in the city street lined with office buildings. |
MURIDAE Amami Spiny Rat MURIDAE Ryukyu Spiny Rat MURIDAE Tokunoshima Spiny Rat |
Body length 12-18cm. Tail length 10-12cm. When it is attacked by a snake, the rat jumps, and dodge the blow. Three kinds of Spiny rats are another species. |
MURIDAE Ryukyu Long-tailed Giant Rat |
Body length 22-33cm. Tail length 24-33cm. It is the biggest rat in the Japanese rat family. |
MURIDAE House Mouse |
Body length 6-9cm. Tail length 4-8cm. The Mouse is distributed widely throughout the world. |
MURIDAE Ryukyu House Mouse |
Body length 6-8cm. Tail length 6-9cm. This Mouse distributed in Okinawa and Taiwan, the Chinese southern part. Their tail is longer than a body. |
MYOCASTORIDAE Nutria (importation kind) |
Body length 56-63cm. Tail length 30-43cm. A kind of big Rodentia family from South America Hara. It lives in the water side. |