What is Spiny mouse?
{{Taxobox | name = Spiny Mouse | fossil_range = Early [[Pliocene]] - Recent | image = Sinaistachelmaus.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = ''[[Acomys dimidiatus]]'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Rodent]]ia | superfamilia = [[Muroidea]] | familia = [[Muridae]] | subfamilia = [[Deomyinae]] | genus = '''''Acomys''''' | genus_authority = [[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|I. Geoffroy]], 1838 <!-- | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''[[Acomys airensis]]'' - Western Saharan Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys cahirinus]]'' - Cairo Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys chudeaui]]'' - Chudeau's Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys cilicicus]]'' - Asia Minor Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys cineraceus]]'' - Grey Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys dimidiatus]]''<br/> ''[[Acomys ignitus]]'' - Fiery Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys johannis]]'' - Johan's Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys kempi]]'' - Kemp's Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys louisae]]'' - Louise's Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys minous]]'' - Crete Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys mullah]]'' - Mullah Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Cyprus Spiny Mouse|Acomys nesiotes]]'' - Cyprus Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys percivali]]'' - Percival's Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys russatus]]'' - Golden Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys seurati]] - ''Seurat's Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys spinosissimus]]'' - Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys subspinosus]]'' - Cape Spiny Mouse<br/> ''[[Acomys wilsoni]]'' - Wilson's Spiny Mouse --> }} [[Image:Acomys.cahirinus.cahirinus.6871.jpg|thumb|right|Spiny mouse at the Leipzig Zoo]] The term '''spiny mouse''' refers to any [[species]] of [[rodent]] within the [[genus]] '''''Acomys'''''. They are usually called spiny mice in English. They look like mice of the genus ''[[Mouse|Mus]]''. Spiny mice are small [[mammal]]s with bare, [[scale (zoology)|scale]]d [[tail]]s. Their coats have unusually stiff [[guard hair]]s that work the same way as the [[spine (biology)|spine]]s of a [[hedgehog]]. These stiff hairs are why they are called the ''spiny mouse''. Ev