Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
     Suborder Sciurognathi (Tullberg, 1899) see Suborder Sciuromorpha Brandt, 1855
       Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
         01 Subfamily Arvicolinae Gray, 1821 - voles
         02 Subfamily Calomyscinae Vorontsov, Kartavtseva & Potapova, 1978 see Family Calomyscidae Vorontsov & Potapova, 1979
         03 Subfamily Cricetinae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 - hamsters
         04 Subfamily Cricetomyinae Roberts, 1951 - African pouched rats
         05 Subfamily Dendromurinae Allen, 1939 - African climbing mice
         06 Subfamily Gerbillinae Gray, 1825 - gerbils
         07 Subfamily Lophiomyinae Milne-Edwards, 1867
         08 Subfamily Murinae Batsch, 1788 - Old World mice and rats
         09 Subfamily Myospalacinae Lilljeborg, 1866 - zokors
         10 Subfamily Mystromyinae Vorontsov, 1966
         11 Subfamily Nesomyinae Forsyth Major, 1897 - Madagascan rats
         12 Subfamily Otomyinae Thomas, 1897 - African swamp rats see Subfamily Murinae Batsch, 1788
         13 Subfamily Petromyscinae Roberts, 1951
         14 Subfamily Platacanthomyinae Alston, 1876 - spiny dormice see Family Platacanthomyidae Alston, 1876
         15 Subfamily Rhizomyinae Winge, 1887 - East African mole-rats
         16 Subfamily Sigmodontinae Wagner, 1843
         17 Subfamily Spalacinae Gray, 1821 - blind mole-rats