Rodentia

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

Rodentia

1. A taxonomic order within the infraclass Placentalia – the 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 (mole rats), Calomyscidae, Capromyidae (hutias), Castoridae (beavers), Caviidae (hamsters), Chinchillidae (chinchillas), Cricetidae, Ctenodactylidae, Ctenomyidae, Cuniculidae, Dasyproctidae, Diatomyidae, Dinomyidae, Dipodidae, Echimyidae (spiny rats and nutria), Erethizontidae, Geomyidae, Gliridae (dormice), Heptaxodontidae, Heteromyidae, Hystricidae, Muridae, Myocastoridae, Nesomyidae, Octodontidae, Pedetidae, Petromuridae, Platacanthomyidae, Sciuridae (squirrels), Spalacidae, Thryonomyidae - families

• Rodentia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rodentia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Rodentia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Rodentia in Mammal Species of the World 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521