Himalayan field mouse

The Himalayan field mouse (Apodemus gurkha) is a rodent in the family Muridae, the large family of Old World mice and rats. It is endemic to Nepal, which means it is found nowhere else in the world. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the subfamily Murinae, in the tribe Apodemini and the genus Apodemus, the field mice and wood mice, and lists it in the Palearctic biogeographic realm. That database describes its range as coniferous forest in central Nepal between about 2,200 and 3,600 metres above sea level, and it records Nepalese field mouse and Himalayan wood mouse as other common names. The species was described by O. Thomas in 1924 from a holotype collected at Laprak in Gorkha, Nepal. A 2023 molecular study proposed moving it to a separate genus, Alsomys, but the database keeps it in Apodemus pending further research. The IUCN Red List rates it Least Concern.