Muroidea

Muroidea is a large superfamily of rodents. It includes 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 6 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)