Class [Mammalia] Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
     Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
       Subfamily Platacanthomyinae Alston, 1876 - spiny dormice see Family Platacanthomyidae Alston, 1876
         Genus Typhlomys Milne-Edwards, 1877 - Chinese pygmy dormouse
           Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877 - Chinese pygmy dormouse