Muridae - Wikipedia
WEBThe Muridae, or murids, are either the largest or second-largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 870 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.
Muridae | Rodent Family, Habitats & Characteristics | Britannica
WEBMuridae, (family Muridae), largest extant rodent family, indeed the largest of all mammalian families, encompassing more than 1,383 species of the “true” mice and rats. Two-thirds of all rodent species and genera belong to family Muridae.
ADW: Muridae: INFORMATION
WEBMuridae. Old World mice and rats, gerbils, whistling rats, and relatives. By Phil Myers. Murids include most of the familiar rats and mice, but the family also encompasses an enormously diverse array of other rodents.
Muridae - Animalia
WEBThe Muridae, or murids, are the largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 1383 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.
Muridae - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WEBMuridae is the largest family of mammals. It contains over 700 species. These species can be found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. They have been introduced worldwide. The group includes true mice and rats, gerbils, and relatives.
Rats, Mice, and Relatives: Muridae | Encyclopedia.com
WEBRats, mice, and relatives, sometimes called murids (MYOO-rids; members of the family Muridae), are divided into seventeen subfamilies, including voles and lemmings, hamsters, Old World rats and mice, South American rats and mice, and many others.
Subfamilies of Muridae - ADW
WEBSubfamilies of Muridae. With over 1300 species, nearly globally distributed and tremendously diverse ecologically, the murids present a biologist with an almost unmanageably complex group. Systematists working with murids have divided the family into around 15 Recent subfamilies.
Family MURIDAE
WEBThe Muridae, a most ubiquitous family of rats and mice, is cosmopolitan. Several species are commensal with man and the now cosmopolitan distribution of the family is directly related to this commensal relationship.
Muridae - Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 18, 2018 · Muridae (order Rodentia, suborder Myomorpha) A family of Old World rats and mice that are perhaps the most successful of all mammalian families. They are small, terrestrial, arboreal, burrowing, or semi-aquatic animals.
Muridae Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster Medical
WEBThe meaning of MURIDAE is a very large family of relatively small rodents (superfamily Muroidea) that include various originally Old World rodents (as the house mouse and the common rats) that are now cosmopolitan in distribution and that in recent classifications often include the cricetid rodents as a subfamily (Cricetinae).
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