Kauaʻi record · KCA-MAM-house-mouse
House mouse
Mus musculus
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About House mouse
Kauaʻi status: Confirmed on Kauaʻi. Ecological relationships include seed banks, invertebrates, and sensitive nesting sites.
Kauaʻi evidence
Explicitly documented in Kauaʻi forest-reserve management context.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Mus musculus
- Common names
- House mouse
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Confirmed on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not listed
- Evidence date
- 2026-09-13
- Evidence limits
- Uncertainty is retained at site, abundance, and trend levels.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- grassland · forest edge · farms · settlements
- Food and resource needs
- seeds · invertebrates · human foods
- Reproduction
- concealed nest sites
- Shelter
- ground cover · structures
Threats and conservation
- Threats
- seed and invertebrate consumption · food-web alteration
- Conservation actions
- site-specific control · sanitation · biosecurity
- Monitoring
- tracking stations · trap indices
- Data gaps
- Site-scale abundance and trend coverage remains uneven.
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Established
- Seasonal description
- Kauaʻi status: Confirmed on Kauaʻi. Ecological relationships include seed banks, invertebrates, and sensitive nesting sites.