Muroidea 495263 223617675 2008-07-04T22:23:07Z Leptictidium 358207 {{Taxobox | name = Muroids | fossil_range = Middle [[Eocene]] - Recent | image = Feldmaus Microtus arvalis.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = ''[[Microtus arvalis]]'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Rodent]]ia | superfamilia = '''Muroidea''' | superfamilia_authority = Illiger, 1811 | subdivision_ranks = [[family (biology)|Families]] | subdivision = [[Platacanthomyidae]]<br> [[Spalacidae]]<br> [[Calomyscidae]]<br> [[Nesomyidae]]<br> [[Cricetidae]]<br> [[Muridae]] }} '''Muroidea''' is a large [[superfamily]] of [[rodent]]s. It includes [[hamster]]s, [[gerbil]]s, true [[mouse|mice]] and [[rat]]s, and many other relatives. They occupy a vast variety of [[habitat (ecology)|habitats]] on every continent except [[Antarctica]]. Some authorities have placed all members of this group into a single family, [[Muridae]], due to difficulties in determining how the [[subfamily|subfamilies]] are related to one another. The following [[taxonomy]] is based on recent well-supported [[molecular phylogeny|molecular phylogenies]]. The muroids are classified in 6 [[family (biology)|families]], 19 [[subfamily|subfamilies]], around 280 [[genus|genera]] and at least 1300 [[species]]. ==Taxonomy== *Family [[Platacanthomyidae]] - ''[[incertae sedis]]'' - ([[spiny dormouse]] and [[Pygmy dormouse|pygmy dormice]]) *Family [[Spalacidae]] fossorial muroids **Subfamily [[Myospalacinae]] ([[zokor]]s) **Subfamily [[Rhizomyinae]] ([[bamboo rat]]s and [[root rat]]s) **Subfamily [[Spalacinae]] ([[blind mole rat]]s) *Clade [[Eumuroida]] - typical muroids **Family [[Calomyscidae]] ***Subfamily [[Calomyscinae]] ([[mouse-like hamster]]s) **Family [[Nesomyidae]] ***Subfamily [[Cricetomyinae]] (pouched rats and mice) ***Subfamily [[Dendromurinae]] ([[African climbing mice]], [[gerbil mice]], [[fat mice]] and [[forest mice]]) ***Subfamily [[Mystromyinae]] ([[white-tailed rat]]) ***Subfamily [[Nesomyinae]] (Malagasy rats and mice) ***Subfamily [[Petromyscinae]] ([[rock mouse|rock mice]] and the [[climbing swamp mouse]]) **Family [[Cricetidae]] ***Subfamily [[Arvicolinae]] ([[vole]]s, [[lemming]]s and [[muskrat]]) ***Subfamily [[Cricetinae]] (true [[hamster]]s) ***Subfamily [[Neotominae]] (North American rats and mice) ***Subfamily [[Sigmodontinae]] ([[New World rats and mice]]) ***Subfamily [[Tylomyinae]] **Family [[Muridae]] ***Subfamily [[Deomyinae]] (spiny mice, brush furred mice, link rat) ***Subfamily [[Gerbillinae]] ([[gerbil]]s, jirds and sand rats) ***Subfamily [[Leimacomyinae]] ([[Togo Mouse]]) ***Subfamily [[Lophiomyinae]] ([[crested rat]]) ***Subfamily [[Murinae]] (Old World [[rat]]s and mice including [[vlei rat]]s) ==References== *{{Citation | last1=Jansa | first1=Sharon. A. | last2=Weksler | first2=Marcelo | title=[[Phylogeny]] of [[Muroidea|muroid]] [[rodent]]s: relationships within and among major lineages as determined by IRBP [[gene]] sequences | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=31 | issue=1 | year=2004 | pages=256-276 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2003.07.002 | url=http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffmw1/pdfs/jansa.2004.pdf }}. *{{Citation | last1=Michaux | first1=Johan | last2=Reyes | first2=Aurelio | last3=Catzeflis | first3=François | title=Evolutionary History of the Most Speciose Mammals: Molecular [[Phylogeny]] of Muroid [[Rodent]]s | journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution | volume=18 | issue=11 | year=2001 | pages=2017-2031 | url=http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/11/2017 | issn=0737-4038 }}. *Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. *Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. *Norris, R. W., K. Y. Zhou, C. Q. Zhou, G. Yang, C. W. Kilpatrick, and R. L. Honeycutt. 2004. The phylogenetic position of the [[zokor]]s ([[Myospalacinae]]) and comments on the families of [[Muroidea|muroids]] ([[Rodent]]ia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31:972-978. *{{Citation | last1=Steppan | first1=Scott | last2=Adkins | first2=Ronald | last3=Anderson | first3=Joel | title=Phylogeny and Divergence-Date Estimates of Rapid Radiations in Muroid Rodents Based on Multiple Nuclear Genes | journal=Systematic Biology | volume=53 | issue=4 | year=2004 | pages=533-553 | doi=10.1080/10635150490468701 | issn=1063-5157 | url=http://bio.fsu.edu/~steppan/Steppan_et_al_Muroidea_2004.pdf }}. [[Category:Rodents]] [[Category:Muroid rodents]] [[ca:Muroïdeu]] [[de:Mäuseartige]] [[es:Muroidea]] [[fr:Muridae]] [[hu:Egérfélék]] [[ja:ネズミ]] [[nl:Muroidea]] [[oc:Muridae]] [[pt:Muroidea]] [[ru:Мышеобразные]]