ORDER RODENTIA: Suborder Myomorpha (mouse-like rodents): 9
families, 345 genera, 1,744 species
Family Sminthidae (Birch Mice)
Family Zapodidae (Zapodidae)
Family Dipodidae (Jerboas)
Family Platacanthomyidae (Tree Mice)
Family Spalacidae (Muroid Mole-rats)
Family Calomyscidae (Brush-tailed Mice)
Family Nesomyidae (Pouched Rats, Climbing Mice and Fat Mice)
Family Cricetidae (True Hamsters, Voles, Lemmings and New World
Rats and Mice)
Family Muridae (True Mice and Rats, Gerbils and relatives)
Dr D. E. Wilson: Curator Emeritus, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
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