Muroidea

Mus musculus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Cladus: Gliriformes Grandordo: Glires Mirordo: Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

‎Classis: Mammalia
Ordo: Rodentia
Subordo: Myomorpha
Superfamilia: Muroidea
Familiae (6): Calomyscidae – Cricetidae – Muridae – Nesomyidae – Platacanthomyidae – Spalacidae

Name

Muroidea Illiger, 1811

Synonymy

• Murina Illiger, 1811
• Muriformes Tullberg, 1899
• Myoidea Gill, 1872
• Muroidae Miller & Gidley, 1918
• Muroidea Simpson, 1945

References

Primary references

• Illiger, J.K.W. 1811. Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica. C. Salfield: Berolini. xviii + 302 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• McKenna, M.C. & Bell, S.K. (eds.). 1997. Classification of mammals: above the species level. Columbia University Press: New York. xii + 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Google Books Reference page. 
• Michaux, J. & Catzeflis, F. 2000. The Bushlike Radiation of Muroid Rodents Is Exemplified by the Molecular Phylogeny of the LCAT Nuclear Gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17(2): 280–293. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2000.0849 Reference page. 
• Michaux, J., Reyes, A. & Catzeflis, F. 2001. Evolutionary History of the Most Speciose Mammals: Molecular Phylogeny of Muroid Rodents. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18(11): 2017–2031. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003743 Reference page. 
• Jansa, S.A. & Weksler, M. 2004. Phylogeny of muroid rodents: relationships within and among major lineages as determined by IRBP gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(1): 256–276. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.07.002 Reference page. 
• Steppan, S.J., Adkins, R.M. & Anderson, J. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence-date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology 53(4): 533–553. DOI: 10.1080/10635150490468701 Reference page. 
• Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Schenk, J.J., Rowe, K.C. & Steppan, S.J. 2013. Ecological Opportunity and Incumbency in the Diversification of Repeated Continental Colonizations by Muroid Rodents. Systematic Biology 62(6): 837–864. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt050 Reference page. 
• Steppan, S.J. & Schenk, J.J. 2017. Muroid rodent phylogenetics: 900-species tree reveals increasing diversification rates. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0183070. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183070 Reference page.