Superfamily Muroidea
(mice, rats, gerbils, and relatives)

Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

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  Suborder Myomorpha (mice, rats, gerbils, jerboas, and relatives)
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  Superfamily Muroidea (mice, rats, gerbils, and relatives)
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  Family Calomyscidae (mouse-like hamsters)
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  Family Cricetidae (New World rats and mice, voles, hamsters, and relatives)
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  Family Muridae (Old World mice and rats, gerbils, whistling rats, and relatives)
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  Family Nesomyidae (African and Malagasy endemic rats and mice)
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  Family Platacanthomyidae (Malabar spiny dormouse and pygmy dormice)
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  Family Spalacidae (blind mole rats, African mole rats, zokors, and bamboo rats)