Rodentia

See also: rodentia

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Translingual

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Rodentia

1. A taxonomic order within the infraclass Placentalia – the rodents.

Hypernyms

• (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

• (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

References

• Rodentia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rodentia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521