Muridae

The family of the muridés , or Muridae , is a terrestrial family of Mammifère S belonging to the order of the Rongeur S (sub-order of the sciurognathes). The last revisions of classification distinguish more: 1150 species divided into 250 kinds approximately pertaining to 18 subfamilies.

Muridés are present in large varieties of biotopes, they are present on all the continents except for the the Antarctic.

List subfamilies

Arvicolinae (Campagnol S, Lemming S, Muskrat or will ondatra; often included in Cricetinae)
Calomyscinae
Cricetinae (Hamster S)
Cricetomyinae (giant cricétomes, rats)
Deomyinae
Dendromurinae
Gerbillinae (Gerbil S)
Lophiomyinae (Rat with peak)
Murinae (Rat S, Mulot S, Mouse of the old world and Zyzomys)
Myospalacinae (Zokor S)
Mystromyinae (South-African hamster)
Nesomyinae (rats and Malagasy mice)
Otomyinae (whistling rats)
Petromyscinae
Platacanthomyinae (thorny dormouse, dormouse Pygmy of China…)
Rhizomyinae (Rat of the bamboo S, African Rat mole)
Sigmodontinae (Rat S and Mouse of the new world)
Spalacinae (rats blind moles)

Phylogeny

The recent studies tend to make to this family a super-family and to actually distinguish six families with two families from dubious position and a formed clade monophyletic of the four last:

Platacanthomyidae
Spalacidae
Calomyscidae
Nesomyidae
Cricetidae
Muridae

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