Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica.
Contents
- Suborder Hystricomorpha
- Family Ctenodactylidae
- Family Diatomyidae
- Family Bathyergidae
- Family Heterocephalidae
- Family Hystricidae
- Family Petromuridae
- Family Thryonomyidae
- Family Erethizontidae
- Family Chinchillidae
- Family Dinomyidae
- Family Caviidae
- Family Dasyproctidae
- Family Cuniculidae
- Family Ctenomyidae
- Family Octodontidae
- Family Abrocomidae
- Family Echimyidae
- Family Heptaxodontidae
- Family Myocastoridae
- Suborder Anomaluromorpha
- Family Anomaluridae
- Family Pedetidae
- Suborder Sciuromorpha
- Family Aplodontidae
- Family Sciuridae
- Family Gliridae
- Suborder Castorimorpha
- Family Castoridae
- Family Geomyidae
- Family Heteromyidae
- Suborder Myomorpha
- Family Dipodidae
- Family Platacanthomyidae
- Family Spalacidae
- Family Calomyscidae
- Family Nesomyidae
- Family Cricetidae
- Family Muridae
- See also
- References
This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [1]
