Concise hierarchy
	(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia - (Family) Cricetidae
Original position
Current position
	Alternative positions
	
		Historical positions
		
			
				| Cricetinae (Subfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 | Ref: 
						
							M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 150. | 
				
					| Cricetinae (Subfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 | Ref: 
							
								G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 539. | 
					
						| Cricetinae (Subfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 | Ref: 
								
									G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 164. | 
						
							| Cricetini (Tribe) Fischer, 1817 | Ref: 
									
										A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1048. | 
							
								| Cricetini (Tribe) Fischer, 1817 | Ref: 
										
											I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 586. | 
							
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