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Rodentia (rodents)

Scientific Classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Common:rodents

The Rodentia is an order of mammals that include the rodents.

Related Page Hierarchy

Species
Kingdom: Animalia (animals)
Phylum: Chordata (vertebrates, sea squirts)
Class: Mammalia (mammals)
Order: Afrosoricida (tenrecs, golden moles)
Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
Order: Carnivora (carnivores)
Order: Cetacea (whales, dolphins, porpoises)
Order: Chiroptera (bats)
Order: Cingulata (armadillos)
Order: Dasyuromorphia (carnivorous marsupials)
Order: Diprotodontia (herbivorous marsupials)
Order: Dermoptera (flying lemurs or colugos)
Order: Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs)
Order: Hyracoidea (hyraxes or dassies)
Order: Lagomorpha (pikas, rabbits, hares)
Order: Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)
Order: Monotremata (egg-laying mammals)
Order: Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates)
Order: Pholidota (pangolins or scaly anteaters)
Order: Pilosa (sloths, anteaters)
Order: Primates (lemurs, bushbabies, monkeys, apes)
Order: Proboscidea (elephants)
Order: Rodentia (rodents)
Family: Anomaluridae (scaly-tailed squirrels)
Family: Aplodontiidae (mountain beaver)
Family: Castoridae (beavers)
Family: Cuniculidae (pacas)
Family: Geomyidae (pocket gophers)
Family: Heteromyidae (kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice)
Family: Diatomyidae (Laotian rock rat)
Family: Ctenodactylidae (gundis)
Family: Bathyergidae (African mole rats)
Family: Hystricidae (old world porcupines)
Family: Abrocomidae (chinchilla rats)
Family: Capromyidae (hutias)
Family: Caviidae (cavies, including guinea pigs, capybara)
Family: Chinchillidae (chinchillas, viscachas)
Family: Ctenomyidae (tuco-tucos)
Family: Dasyproctidae (agoutis)
Family: Dinomyidae (pacaranas)
Family: Echimyidae (spiny rats)
Family: Erethizontidae (new World porcupines)
Family: Myocastoridae (nutria)
Family: Octodontidae (octodonts)
Family: Dipodidae (jerboas, jumping mice)
Family: Calomyscidae (mouse-like hamsters)
Family: Cricetidae (hamsters, new world rats, mice, voles)
Family: Gliridae (dormice)
Family: Muridae (true mice, rats, gerbils, spiny mice, crested rat)
Family: Nesomyidae (climbing mice, rock mice, white-tailed rat, Malagasy rats, mice)
Family: Pedetidae (springhares)
Family: Petromuridae (dassie rat)
Family: Platacanthomyidae (spiny dormice)
Family: Spalacidae (mole rats, bamboo rats, zokors)
Family: Sciuridae (squirrels, chipmunks, prairie dogs, marmots)
Family: Thryonomyidae (cane rats)
Order: Scandentia (treeshrews)
Order: Sirenia (dugong, manatees)
Order: Soricomorpha (moles, shrews, solenodons)
Order: Tubulidentata (aardvark)