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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Rodentia Suborder Sciurognathi Family Muridae

Family Muridae
(Old World mice and rats, gerbils, whistling rats, and relatives)



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    Superfamily Muroidea (mice, rats, gerbils, and relatives)
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    Family Muridae (Old World mice and rats, gerbils, whistling rats, and relatives)
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    Subfamily Deomyinae (spiny mice, forest mice, and relatives)
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    Subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds, and relatives)
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    Subfamily Leimacomyinae (groove-toothed forest mice)
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    Subfamily Murinae (Old World rats and mice)
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    Subfamily Otomyinae (vlei rats and whistling rats)

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