Rodentia
See also: rodentia
Translingual
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin stem of rodens (“gnawing”), from rodo (“I gnaw”).
Proper noun
[edit]Rodentia
Hypernyms
[edit]- (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
[edit]- (order): Anomaluromorpha, Castorimorpha, Hystricomorpha, Myomorpha, Sciuromorpha – 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 (New World mice and rats, voles, hamsters, muskrats, and lemmings), Ctenodactylidae (gundis), Ctenomyidae (tuco-tucos), Cuniculidae (pacas), Dasyproctidae (agoutis and acouchis), Diatomyidae (Laotian rock rats), Dinomyidae (pacaranas), Dipodidae (jerboas), Echimyidae (spiny rats), Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), Geomyidae (pocket gophers), Gliridae (dormice), Heterocephalidae (naked mole rats), Heteromyidae (kangaroo mice, kangaroo rats, pocket mice, and spiny pocket mice), 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 (pouched rats, Malagasy rodents, dendromurines, rock mice, Delaney's mice and white-tailed rats), Octodontidae (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
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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
