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Cook's mouse

Mus cookii Ryley, 1914

LCLeast Concernrodents

The cook's mouse (Mus cookii) is a species in the family Muridae, order Rodentia. Recorded adults weigh about 20.5 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

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Quick facts about the cook's mouse

Weight
20.5 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Herbivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forest, shrublandsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the cook's mouse live?

Not recorded

What is the cook's mouse?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Cook's mouse (Mus cookii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

It is found in southern and south-eastern Asia from India to Vietnam.

From the Wikipedia article “Cook's mouse” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cook%27s_mouse&oldid=1371325330), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the cook's mouse endangered?

The cook's mouse is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the cook's mouse classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderRodentia
  5. familyMuridae
  6. genusMus
  7. SpeciesMus cookii Ryley, 1914

Synonyms Leggada nagarum, Leggada palnica, Leggada rahengis, Mus darjilingensis, Taulalus thai, Tautatus thai

Other names and names in other languages (12)
  • Cook s mouseEnglish
  • Cook’s mouseEnglish
  • Ryley’s spiny mouseEnglish
  • Ryley’s spiny mouseEnglish
  • فأر كوكArabic
  • myš CookovaCzech
  • Cook-MausGerman
  • burmanhiiriFinnish
  • クックハツカネズミJapanese
  • mysz orientalnaPolish
  • Мышь КукаRussian
  • หนูหริ่งใหญ่Thai

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the cook's mouse

Other species in the same genus Mus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the cook's mouse?

An adult cook's mouse weighs 20.5 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the cook's mouse endangered?

The cook's mouse is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the cook's mouse?

The cook's mouse (Mus cookii) belongs to the family Muridae in the order Rodentia.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

  • Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
    Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
  • EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
    Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1
  • Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
    Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
  • Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
    Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).
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BibTeX
@misc{cooks_mouse_2026,
  title = {Cook's mouse (Mus cookii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cooks-mouse},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}