Muroidea
| Muroidea Temporal range:
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| Common vole ( Microtus arvalis )
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Myomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Muroidea Illiger, 1811 |
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Calomyscidae Nesomyidae Cricetidae Muridae sister: Dipodoidea | |
The Muroidea are a large
molecular phylogenies.[5]
The muroids are classified in six families, 19 subfamilies, around 280 genera, and at least 1,750 species.
Taxonomy
- Family spiny dormouse and pygmy dormice)
- Family Spalacidae (fossorial muroids)
- Subfamily Myospalacinae (zokors)
- Subfamily Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats and root rats)
- Subfamily blind mole rats)
- Subfamily
- Clade Eumuroida – typical muroids
- Family Calomyscidae
- Subfamily Calomyscinae (mouse-like hamsters)
- Subfamily
- Family Nesomyidae
- Subfamily Cricetomyinae(pouched rats and mice)
- Subfamily forest mice)
- Subfamily Mystromyinae (white-tailed rat)
- Subfamily Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)
- Subfamily climbing swamp mouse)
- Subfamily
- 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 (vesper rats and climbing rats)
- Family Muridae
- Subfamily Deomyinae (spiny mice, brush furred mice, link rat)
- Subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds and sand rats)
- Subfamily Togo Mouse)
- Subfamily crested rat)
- Subfamily vlei rats)
- Family
Phylogeny
5 main clades are recognized by Jansa & Weksler (2004).[6]
- Family )
- Family Calomyscinae (Asia)
- Family )
- Family Lophiomyinae (Old World)
- Family Cricetinae (New World)
Together, Muroidea and its
suborder Myomorpha
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The following
molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Interphotoreceptor Retinoid Binding Protein (IRBP) gene, is from Jansa & Weksler (2004: 264).[6] Although Platacanthomyidae was not analyzed by Jansa & Weksler (2004), a study by Fabre et al. 2012[7] suggests that it is the most basal
lineage of Muroidea.
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References
- Jansa, S. A.; Giarla, T. C.; Lim, B. K. (2009). "The Phylogenetic Position of the Rodent Genus Typhlomys and the Geographic Origin of Muroidea". Journal of Mammalogy. 90 (5): 1083. .
- Jansa, S.A.; Weksler, M. (2004). "Phylogeny of muroid rodents: relationships within and among major lineages as determined by IRBP gene sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 31 (1): 256–276. PMID 15019624.
- Michaux, J.; Reyes, A.; Catzeflis, F. (2001). "Evolutionary history of the most speciose mammals: Molecular phylogeny of muroid rodents". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18 (11): 2017–2031. PMID 11606698.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. pp. 501–755 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
- OCLC 62265494.
- Norris, R. W.; Zhou, K.; Zhou, C.; Yang, G.; William Kilpatrick, C.; Honeycutt, R. L. (2004). "The phylogenetic position of the zokors (Myospalacinae) and comments on the families of muroids (Rodentia)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 31 (3): 972–978. PMID 15120394.