The New World rats and mice are a group of related rodents found in North and South America. They are extremely diverse in appearance and ecology, ranging...
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Murinae (redirect from Old World rats and mice)
The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species. Members of this subfamily are called...
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Cricetidae (section Evolution and systematics)
rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At over 870 species...
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subfamily Sigmodontinae includes New World rats and mice, with at least 376 species. Many authorities include the Neotominae and Tylomyinae as part of a larger...
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genera, and many species of New World rats and mice, predominantly found in North America. Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, packrats...
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Hamster (section Gestation and fecundity)
it in a family Cricetidae that also includes voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice; others group all these into a large family called Muridae. Their...
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Arvicolinae (redirect from Voles and lemmings)
lemmings, and muskrats. They are most closely related to the other subfamilies in the Cricetidae (comprising the hamsters and New World rats and mice). Some...
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hamsters, voles, and New World rats and mice (Holarctic, South America) Family Muridae: (about 1,383 species) Old World rats and mice and gerbils (Africa...
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of New World rats and mice including the vesper and climbing rats. They are not as well known as their relatives in the subfamilies Sigmodontinae and Neotominae...
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rat Central rock rat Includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice. European hamster Chinanteco deer mouse Delicate deer mouse Ixtlán...
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Muroidea are a large superfamily of rodents, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, lemmings, gerbils, and many other relatives. Although the Muroidea originated...
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17 families, 40 genera, and 60 species represented among the mammals of New England. If extirpated, coastal, introduced, and accidental species are included...
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time, the number of rats in New York City was unknown, and a common urban legend declared there were up to five times as many rats as people. However,...
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List of European species extinct in the Holocene (redirect from List of extinct and endangered species of Lithuania)
680-686. Giggs, R. (2019). The sad story of a rare cat and its loyal parasite. The Atlantic Monthly. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Siettitia...
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muroid rodents (mice, rats and relatives). The clade is not defined in the standard taxonomic hierarchy, but it is between superfamily and family. The Eumuroida...
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List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene (section Hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice (family Cricetidae))
Bastos-Silveira, C., Cothran, E. G., & Oom, M. D. M. (2006). "Iberian origins of New World horse breeds". Journal of Heredity, 97 (2), 107-113. Jones, M.L. et al...
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List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene (section Hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice (family Cricetidae))
, López, J. M., & Chiavazza, H. (2024). A new extinct desert rodent from the Holocene of South America and its bearing on the diversity of Octodontidae...
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farm. Jonathan and Ages were the only two survivors of a group of eight mice who had been part of the experiments at NIMH and made the rats' escape possible...
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Rodent (section Distribution and habitat)
upper and lower pair of ever-growing incisors. Well-known rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, prairie dogs, porcupines, beavers, guinea pigs, and hamsters...
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Dipodidae Two species of jumping mice occur in Pennsylvania. Family: Cricetidae Nine species of voles and New World rats and mice occur in Pennsylvania. Subfamily...
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Laboratory rat (redirect from Wistar rats)
laboratory mice, rats have served as an important animal model for research in psychology and biomedical science. In 18th-century Europe, wild brown rats (Rattus...
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1492, brought in Old World rats, mice, domestic animals, and large-scale deforestation that erradicated many of the native animals and those introduced by...
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Animal testing on rodents (redirect from Animal testing on mice)
commonly used in animal testing, particularly mice and rats, but also guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils and others. Mice are the most commonly used vertebrate species...
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Key Island giant rat Includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice. Diminutive akodont Catamarca akodont Lindbergh's grass mouse...
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gathers together a seemingly invincible army of ice spear-wielding ghost rats. The mice of Deptford are at a loss as to how to vanquish him this second time...
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the Biker Mice went to Earth, Harley was kidnapped by a rat named Mace, got half her face blown off, and then was shown mercy by other rats. Therefore...
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List of fictional rodents (redirect from List of fictional mice and rats)
extinct or prehistoric species. Rodents, particularly rats and mice, feature in literature, myth and legend. The North American Salish people have an epic...
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