the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Micromys (harvest mouse) (3)
(a) the harvest mouse, Micromys minutus; (b) = red rat n.
A very small species of mouse (Mus messorius, or Micromys minutus), which builds its nest in the stalks of growing grain; it is the smallest of…