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Order Rodentia

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Order Rodentia (4+ suborders, 44 families, 350 genera (400+ extinct genera), 2400 species)
Rats, Mice, Squirrels

• Family Hystricidae
  Old World Porcupine
• Family Anomaluridae
  Scalytailed Squirrel
• Family Capromyidae
  Hutia
• Family Castoridae
  Beaver
• Family Eutypomyidae
• Family Ctenodactylidae
  Gundi
• Family Cuniculidae
  Paca
• Family Seleveniidae
  Jumping Dormouse (1 genus)
• Family Pseudosciuridae
• Family Gliridae
  Dormouse
• Family Pedetidae
  Springhaas or Cape Jumping Hare
• Family Theridomyidae
• Suborder Sciuromorpha (8 families)
  • Family Paramyidae (1 subfamily)
  • Family Sciuravidae (1 genus)
  • Family Sciuridae (70 genera)
    Chipmunk
    Palm Squirrel
    Ground Squirrel
    Prairie Dog
    Flying Squirrel
    Marmot
    Woodchuck
    Tree Squirrel
    Chickaree
  • Family Ischyromyidae
  • Family Cylindrodontidae
  • Family Aplodontiidae
    Mountain Beaver or Sewellel
  • Family Protoptychidae
  • Family Mylagaulidae
• Suborder Myomorpha (9 families)
  • Family Cricetidae
    Gerbil
    Hamster
    Water Vole
    Bank Vole
    Steppe Lemming
    Lemming
    Field Vole
    Pack Rat
    Muskrat
    Rice Rat
    Deer Mouse
    Harvest Mouse
  • Family Muridae
    Kangaroo Mouse
    Spiny Mouse
    Long-tailed Fieldmouse
    Bandicoot
    Giant Rat
    Marmoset Rat
    Stick-nest Rat
    Mouse
    Rat
    Multimammate Rat
    Zebra Mouse
  • Family Heteromyidae
    Pocket Mouse
    Kangaroo Rat
    Crested Porcupine
  • Family Geomyidae
    Pocket Gopher
  • Family Eomyidae
  • Family Zapodidae
    Birch Mice
    Jumping Mice
  • Family Dipodidae
    Jerboa
  • Family Spalacidae
    Mole Rat
  • Family Rhizomyidae
    African Mole Rat
    Bamboo Rat
• Suborder Caviomorpha (13 families)
  • Family Octodontidae
    Octodont
    Degus
    • Genus Platypittamys
  • Family Echimyidae
    Spiny Rat
  • Family Ctenomyidae
    Tuco-tuco
  • Family Abrocomidae
    Chinchilla Rat
    Abrocome
  • Family Chinchillidae
    Chinchilla
    Viscacha
  • Family Capromyidae
    Hutia
    Coypus
  • Family Dasyproctidae
    Agoutis
    Pacas
  • Family Dinomyidae
    Pacaranas
  • Family Elasmodontomyidae
  • Family Eocardiidae
  • Family Caviidae
    Guinea Pig
    Cavies
    Maras
  • Family Hydrochoeridae
    Capybara
  • Family Erethizontidae
    Porcupine
• Suborder Phiomorpha (4 families)
  • Family Phiomyidae
  • Family Petromuridae
    Rock or Dassie Rat
  • Family Thryonomyidae
    Cane Rats
  • Family Bathyergidae
    Blesmols or African Mole Rat

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