Rodentia

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

Rodentia

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

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

• (order): Sciurognathi, Hystricognathi – suborders
  • Sciuromorpha, Castorimorpha, Myomorpha, Anomaluromorpha, Hystricomorpha – infraorders
    • Abrocomidae (chinchilla rats), Anomaluridae (scaly-tailed squirrels), Aplodontiidae (mountain beaver), Bathyergidae (blesmols), Calomyscidae, Capromyidae (hutias), Castoridae (beavers), Caviidae (guinea pigs and capybaras), Chinchillidae (chinchillas), Cricetidae (voles, hamsters, Old World mice and rats, etc), Ctenodactylidae, Ctenomyidae, Cuniculidae, Dasyproctidae, Diatomyidae, Dinomyidae, Dipodidae, Echimyidae (spiny rats and nutria), 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), Myocastoridae, Nesomyidae, Octodontidae, Pedetidae, Petromuridae, Platacanthomyidae, Sciuridae (squirrels), Spalacidae (mole-rats, etc), Thryonomyidae – families

•   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