Southern African Pygmy Mouse
Field guide
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Southern African Pygmy Mouse

Mus minutoides

Overview

Table Mountain National Park and Mahale Mountains National Park are the two atlas places where the Southern African Pygmy Mouse is recorded. Its records concentrate in Gabon, Benin, and Congo - Kinshasa, with 989 records across 13 countries in total.

Seasons for these records differ by region, and each place page shows the months the mouse was recorded there.

Records
989
Countries
13
Atlas places
2
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Southern African Pygmy Mouse as much as where it lives. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • Gabon
    25 km zone · high confidence · 290 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Benin
    25 km zone · high confidence · 205 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Congo - Kinshasa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 195 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Guinea
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 106 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Congo - Brazzaville
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 45 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Malawi
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 42 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 39 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Central African Republic
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 20 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 20 records · updated 40 days ago
    Possible
  • Liberia
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 13 records · updated 40 days ago
    Possible

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Southern African Pygmy Mouse