Rodentia
See also: rodentia
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
From Latin stem of rodens (“gnawing”), from rodo (“I gnaw”).
Proper noun edit
Rodentia
Hypernyms edit
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass
Hyponyms edit
- (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
- Sciuromorpha, Castorimorpha, Myomorpha, Anomaluromorpha, Hystricomorpha - infraorders
References edit
- Rodentia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Rodentia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Rodentia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Rodentia in Mammal Species of the World[1] 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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248