The 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. [2]

2025年3月8日 · Muridae, (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. The members of this family are often collectively called murids, or muroid rodents.

Read about Muridae (Old World mice and rats, gerbils, whistling rats, and relatives) on the Animal Diversity Web.

The Muridae, or murids, are the largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing over 700 species found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. The name Muridae comes from the Latin mus, meaning "mouse".

2024年1月12日 · The family Muridae represents the largest, most diverse and successful of all groups of mammals. Here we infer the phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography for the Iranian murid rodents, which consist in twelve species distributed in …

Murids range from solitary animals to highly social animals and from very common to very rare. Murid fossils are known from the Oligocene to recent in North America and Eurasia, from the Pliocene until recent in South America , and more recently in Africa, Madagascar, and Australia.

Rats, 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.

2005年10月31日 · The Muridae is the largest family of mammals (numbering over 1300 species), with a great variety of adaptations to life in and around water. Oddly, however, there are no water rats in the Asian tropics.

The Muridae, or murids, are the biggest rodent and mammal family in the world, with over 700 species including many mice, rats, and gerbils found in Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. Muridae is derived from the Latin mus (genitive murids), which means "mouse."

With around 711 species, this is the largest family of rodents and mammals. They are native to Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia, but they have been introduced around the world and today are found in all parts of the world, except for Antarctica.