Murid
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 muskrat; often included in Cricetinae)
- Calomyscinae (Asian hamster mice)
- Cricetinae (voles and hamsters)
- Cricetomyinae (pouched rats and mice)
- Dendromurinae (African climbing mice, gerbil mice, fat mice and forest mice)
- Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds and sand rats)
- Lophiomyinae (crested rat)
- Murinae (Old World rats and mice)
- Myospalacinae (zokors)
- Mystromyinae (white tailed rat)
- Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)
- Otomyinae (vlei rats, karoo rats and whistling rats)
- Petromyscinae (rock mice and the climbing swamp mouse)
- Platacanthomyinae (blind tree mouse and Malabar spiny mouse)
- Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats and African mole rats)
- Sigmodontinae (New World rats and mice)
- Spalacinae (blind mole rats)
