| St Kilda house mouse | |
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Extinct (c. 1930)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Mus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †M. m. muralis
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Mus musculus muralis Barrett-Hamilton, 1899
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The St Kilda house mouse (Mus musculus muralis) is an extinct subspecies of the house mouse found only on the islands of the St Kilda archipelago of northwest Scotland.[1] They were first described, alongside the St Kilda field mouse, by natural historian Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton in 1899.[2]
- ^ Barrett-Hamilton, GEH (1899). "On the Species of the Genus Mus inhabiting St. Kilda". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 77–88.
- ^ "Specimen of the week 339: The St Kilda mice | UCL Museums & Collections Blog". blogs.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2019.