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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 muskratMuskrat : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Muridae : Arvicolinae Ondatra zibethicus Binomial name Ondatra zibethicus ( Linnaeus, 1766) The Muskrat or Musquash Ondatra zibethicus , the only species in genus Ondatra is a large rodent native to No; often included in Cricetinae)
• Calomyscinae (Asian hamster mice)
• Cricetinae ( voles and hamstersee text A hamster is a rodent belonging to subfamily Cricetinae . The subfamily contains about 18 species, classified in six or seven genera. Most have expandable cheek pouches, which reach from their cheeks to their shoulders. Species of hamsters The bes)
• Cricetomyinae (pouched rats and mice)
• Dendromurinae ( African climbing mice , gerbil mice , fat mice and forest mice )
• Gerbillinae ( gerbilAnimalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae A gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats," the gerbil family includes 89 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all ofs, jird s and sand rat s)
• Lophiomyinae ( crested rat)
• Murinae (Old World rats and mice)
• Myospalacinae ( zokors)
• Mystromyinae ( white tailed rat )
• Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)
• Otomyinae ( vlei rat s, karoo rat s and whistling rat s)
• Petromyscinae ( rock mice and the climbing swamp mouse )
• Platacanthomyinae ( blind tree mouse and Malabar spiny mouse )
• Rhizomyinae ( bamboo rats and African mole rat s)
• Sigmodontinae (New World rats and mice)
• Spalacinae ( blind mole rat s)