Muroidea
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{{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
}}.
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