Muridae

Murids
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae
Genera
Many: see text

Muridae is a large family of rodents. It includes true mice and rats and many other relatives. They occupy a vast variety of habitats on every continent except Antarctica.

The Murids are classified in 17 subfamilies, around 260 genera and at least 1150 species.

Subfamilies

• Arvicolinae (voles, lemmings and muskrat; often included in Cricetinae)
• Calomyscinae (Asian hamster mice)
• Cricetinae (voles and hamsters)
• Cricetomyinae (pouched rats and mice)
• Dendromurinae (African climbing mice, gerbil mice, fat mice and forest mice)
• Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds and sand rats)
• Lophiomyinae (crested rat)
• Murinae (Old World rats and mice)
• Myospalacinae (zokors)
• Mystromyinae (white tailed rat)
• Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)
• Otomyinae (vlei rats, karoo rats and whistling rats)
• Petromyscinae (rock mice and the climbing swamp mouse)
• Platacanthomyinae (blind tree mouse and Malabar spiny mouse)
• Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats and African mole rats)
• Sigmodontinae (New World rats and mice)
• Spalacinae (blind mole rats)