Rodentia

See also: rodentia

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin stem of rodens (“gnawing”), from rodo (“I gnaw”).

Proper noun

Rodentia

1. A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – rodents.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Boreoeutheria – magnorder; Euarchontoglires – superorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Hystricomorpha, Sciuromorpha, Supramyomorpha – suborders
  • Abrocomidae (chinchilla rats), Anomaluridae (anomalures), Aplodontiidae (mountain beavers), Bathyergidae (blesmols), Calomyscidae (mouse-like hamsters), Castoridae (beavers), Caviidae (guinea pigs, capybaras, maras, rock cavies, acrobatic cavies, mountain cavies, and yellow-toothed cavies), Chinchillidae (chinchillas and viscachas), Cricetidae (hamsters, New World mice and rats, muskrats, voles, and lemmings), Ctenodactylidae (gundis), Ctenomyidae (tuco-tucos), Cuniculidae (pacas), Dasyproctidae (agoutis and acouchis), Diatomyidae (Laotian rock rats), Dinomyidae (pacaranas), Dipodidae (jerboas), Echimyidae (Neotropical spiny rats), Geomyidae (pocket gophers), Gliridae (dormice), Heterocephalidae (naked mole rats), Heteromyidae (spiny pocket mice, pocket mice, kangaroo mice, and kangaroo rats), Hystricidae (Old World porcupines), Muridae (Old World mice and rats, gerbils, maned rats, brush-furred mice, jirds, spiny mice, sand rats, link rats, and Rudd's mice), Nesomyidae (Malagasy mice and rats, antsangies, voalavos, and voalavoanalas), Octodontidae (degus, mountain degus, viscacha rats, coruros, and rock rats), Pedetidae (springhares), Petromuridae (dassie rats), Platacanthomyidae (Oriental dormice), Sciuridae (squirrels), Sminthidae (birch mice), Spalacidae (mole-rats, bamboo rats, zokors, and blind mole-rats), Thryonomyidae (cane rats), Zapodidae (jumping mice), Zenkerellidae (Cameroon scaly-tails) – extant families

References

• Rodentia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rodentia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Rodentia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Rodentia in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI