 the muroidea are a large superfamily of rodents, including hamsters, gerbils, true mice and rats, and many other relatives. they occupy a vast variety of 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 subfamilies are related to one another. the following taxonomy is based on recent well-supported molecular phylogenies. the muroids are classified in six families, 19 subfamilies, around 280 genera, and at least 1300 species. ==taxonomy== *family platacanthomyidae (spiny dormouse and pygmy dormice) *family spalacidae fossorial muroids **subfamily myospalacinae (zokors) **subfamily rhizomyinae (bamboo rats and root rats) **subfamily spalacinae (blind mole rats) *clade eumuroida - typical muroids **family calomyscidae ***subfamily calomyscinae (mouse-like hamsters) **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 mice and the climbing swamp mouse) **family cricetidae ***subfamily arvicolinae (voles, lemmings and muskrat) ***subfamily cricetinae (true hamsters) ***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 (gerbils, jirds and sand rats) ***subfamily leimacomyinae (togo mouse) ***subfamily lophiomyinae (crested rat) ***subfamily murinae (old world rats and mice including vlei rats) ==references== * * * *musser, g. g. and m. d. carleton. 1993. family muridae. pp.&nbsp;501â755 in mammal species of the world a tax
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