Myomorpha

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Myomorpha Temporal range: 47.8–0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Ypresian - Recent
Eastern spiny mouse (Acomys dimidiatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Suborder:	Myomorpha Brandt, 1855
Superfamilies
Muroidea Dipodoidea
Synonyms
Murimorpha

The

Most myomorph species belong to the superfamily Muroidea: (hamsters, voles, lemmings, true mice, true rats, and gerbils).

• Superfamily Muroidea
  • Family Platacanthomyidae (spiny dormice and Chinese pygmy dormice)
  • Family
    bamboo rats
    )
  • Family
    mouse-like hamsters
    )
  • Family Nesomyidae (Malagasy mice and rats and African climbing mice)
  • Family Cricetidae (true hamsters, voles and lemmings)
  • Family Muridae (true rats, true mice and gerbils)
• Superfamily Dipodoidea
  • Family
    Dipodidae (jerboas
    )
  • Family Sminthidae (birch mice)
  • Family Zapodidae (jumping mice)

Historically, the definition of the suborder Myomorpha has included one or both of:

• Superfamily Geomyoidea (gophers and kangaroo rats)
  • Family Heteromyidae (kangaroo rats)
  • Family
    Geomyidae
    (gophers)
• Superfamily
  Gliroidea
  (true dormice)
  • Family
    Gliridae

References

Further reading

• Carleton, M. D. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Order Rodentia. Pp745–752 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds.). Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Clutton-Brock, Juliet (ed.). 2004. Mouse-like Rodents. Pp150–159 in Animal (David Burnley ed.). London, Dorling Kindersley.

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