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Taxon: Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia

Original position

Questionably Muroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788

Original entries

Questionably Afrocricetodontinae (Subfamily) Lavocat, 1973
Questionably Anomalomyinae (Subfamily) Schaub, 1925
Questionably Arvicolinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821
Questionably Baranomyinae (Subfamily) Kretzoi, 1955
Questionably Blancomys (Genus) van de Weerd, Adrover, Mein & Soria, 1977
Questionably Calomyscinae (Subfamily) Vorontsov, Kartavtseva & Potapova, 1978
Questionably Cricetinae (Subfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
Questionably Cricetodontinae (Subfamily) Schaub, 1925
Questionably Cricetomyinae (Subfamily) Roberts, 1951
Questionably Cricetopinae (Subfamily) Matthew & Granger, 1923
Questionably Delanymyinae (Subfamily) Denys, Michaux, Catzeflis, Ducrocq & Chevret, 1995
Questionably Dendromurinae (Subfamily) Allen, 1939
Questionably Epimeriones (Genus) Daxner-Hock, 1972
Questionably Eumyinae (Subfamily) Simpson, 1945
Questionably Gerbillinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1825
Questionably Gobicricetodontinae (Subfamily) Qiu, 1996
Questionably Leakeymys (Genus) Lavocat, 1964
Questionably Lophiomyinae (Subfamily) Milne-Edwards, 1867
Questionably Megacricetodontinae (Subfamily) (Mein & Freudenthal, 1971) Jacobs & Lindsay, 1984
Questionably Melissiodontinae (Subfamily) Schaub, 1925
Questionably Microtoscoptinae (Subfamily) Kretzoi, 1955
Questionably Murinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788
Questionably Myocricetodontinae (Subfamily) Lavocat, 1961
Questionably Myospalacinae (Subfamily) Lilljeborg, 1866
Questionably Mystromyinae (Subfamily) Vorontsov, 1966
Questionably Nesomyinae (Subfamily) Forsyth Major, 1897
Questionably Pappocricetodon (Genus) Tong, 1992
Questionably Paracricetodontinae (Subfamily) Mein & Freudenthal, 1971
Questionably Petromyscinae (Subfamily) Roberts, 1951
Questionably Platacanthomyinae (Subfamily) Alston, 1876
Questionably Potwarmus (Genus) Lindsay, 1988
Questionably Rhizomyinae (Subfamily) Winge, 1887
Questionably Selenomys (Genus) Matthew & Granger, 1923
Questionably Sigmodontinae (Subfamily) Wagner, 1843
Questionably Spalacinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821
Questionably Tachyoryctoidinae (Subfamily) Schaub, 1958

Subsequent entries

Trilophomyinae (Subfamily) Kretzoi, 1969 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 139.

Current position

Muroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 26).

Alternative positions

Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 150.
Sciurognathi (Suborder) (Tullberg, 1899) Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 501.

Historical positions

Muroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 26).
Muroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58.
Muroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 136.
Sciurognathi (Suborder) (Tullberg, 1899) Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 501; 7.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 150.
Muroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 637.
Muroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1049; 1048.
Myomorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Muroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 588.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 138g;647s;59ss;1v; ‡4g;16s; †104g;43s;4ss
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [287g;1329s; ‡7g; †183g]
2011 D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 58 150g;752s
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [281g; ‡7g; †183g]
1993 G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton 281[276]g;1326[1302]s; ‡[5g;24s]
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [255g];~1160[1149]s; ‡[1g;16s]
1982 A.F. DeBlase 6sf;98g;457s
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