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?Muroids
Fossil range: Template:Fossil range
The Common Vole (Microtus arvalis)
The Common Vole (Microtus arvalis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Illiger, 1811
Families

Platacanthomyidae
Spalacidae
Calomyscidae
Nesomyidae
Cricetidae
Muridae

Muroidea is a large superfamily of rodents. It includes hamsters, gerbils, true mice and rats, and many other relatives. They occupy a vast variety of habitats on every continent except Antarctica. Some authorities have placed all members of this group into a single family, Muridae, due to difficulties in determining how the subfamilies are related to one another. The following taxonomy is based on recent well-supported molecular phylogenies.

The muroids are classified in 6 families, 19 subfamilies, around 280 genera and at least 1300 species.

Taxonomy[]

  • Family Platacanthomyidae (spiny dormouse and pygmy dormice)
  • Family Spalacidae fossorial muroids
    • Subfamily Myospalacinae (zokors)
    • Subfamily Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats and root rats)
    • Subfamily Spalacinae (blind mole rats)
  • Clade Eumuroida - typical muroids
    • Family Calomyscidae
      • Subfamily Calomyscinae (mouse-like hamsters)
    • Family Nesomyidae
      • Subfamily Cricetomyinae (pouched rats and mice)
      • Subfamily Dendromurinae (African climbing mice, gerbil mice, fat mice and forest mice)
      • Subfamily Mystromyinae (white-tailed rat)
      • Subfamily Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)
      • Subfamily Petromyscinae (rock mice and the climbing swamp mouse)
    • Family Cricetidae
      • Subfamily Arvicolinae (voles, lemmings and muskrat)
      • Subfamily Cricetinae (true hamsters)
      • Subfamily Neotominae (North American rats and mice)
      • Subfamily Sigmodontinae (New World rats and mice)
      • Subfamily Tylomyinae
    • Family Muridae
      • Subfamily Deomyinae (spiny mice, brush furred mice, link rat)
      • Subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds and sand rats)
      • Subfamily Leimacomyinae (Togo Mouse)
      • Subfamily Lophiomyinae (crested rat)
      • Subfamily Murinae (Old World rats and mice including vlei rats)

References[]

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