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; Glires - mirorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Abrocomidae (chinchilla rats), Anomaluridae (scaly-tailed squirrels), Aplodontiidae (mountain beaver), Bathyergidae (blesmols), Calomyscidae, Castoridae (beavers), Caviidae (guinea pigs and capybaras), Chinchillidae (chinchillas), Cricetidae (voles, hamsters, New World mice and rats, etc), Ctenodactylidae, Ctenomyidae (tuco-tucos), Cuniculidae (pacas), Dasyproctidae (agoutis and acouchis), Diatomyidae, Dinomyidae (pacaranas), Dipodidae, Echimyidae (spiny rats), Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), Geomyidae (pocket gophers), Gliridae (dormice), Heptaxodontidae, Heterocephalidae (naked mole rats), Heteromyidae, Hystricidae (Old World porcupines), Muridae (Old World mice and rats, gerbils, etc), Nesomyidae, Octodontidae, Pedetidae (springhares), Petromuridae (dassie rats), Platacanthomyidae, Sciuridae (squirrels), Spalacidae (mole-rats, etc), Thryonomyidae (cane rats) – families

References

• Rodentia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rodentia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Rodentia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Rodentia in Mammal Species of the World^[1] 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