Order Rodentia

Order Rodentia

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