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Muridae
Batsch, 1788
- rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
(mammal)
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Entity:
Muroidea (Superfamily)
..†Afrocricetodontidae (Family)
..Calomyscidae (Family)
..Cricetidae (Family)
..Nesomyidae (Family)
..Platacanthomyidae (Family)
..†Simimyidae (Family)
..Spalacidae (Family)
..Muridae (Family) - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
....†Baranomyinae (Subfamily)
....†Blancomys (Genus)
....†Cricetodontinae (Subfamily)
....†Cricetopinae (Subfamily)
....†Epimeriones (Genus)
....†Eumyinae (Subfamily)
....Gerbillinae (Subfamily) - gerbils
....†Gobicricetodontinae (Subfamily)
....†Leakeymys (Genus)
....†Melissiodontinae (Subfamily)
....†Microtoscoptinae (Subfamily)
....Murinae (Subfamily) - Old World mice and rats
....†Pappocricetodon (Genus)
....†Paracricetodontinae (Subfamily)
....†Potwarmus (Genus)
....Saxatilomys (Genus)
....†Selenomys (Genus)
....†Tachyoryctoidinae (Subfamily)
....Tonkinomys (Genus)
....†Trilophomyinae (Subfamily)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
Batsch, 1788, nom. corr.
Original name
:
Batsch, A.J.G.C. 1788.
Versuch einer Anleitung, zur Kenntniß und Geschichte der Thiere und Mineralien, für akademische Vorlesungen entworfen, und mit den nöthigsten Abbildungen versehen
. Akademische Buchhandlung, Jena
: 115.
Original rank
:
loc. cit.
Subsequent spelling
:
Attributes
Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2]
Ref:
A. Dubois & R. Bour, 2010.
Bonn zoological Bulletin
57
(2)
: table 3.
[implicit]
Types
Nominotypical taxon of
:
Muroidea
(Superfamily)
Batsch, 1788
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Murinae
(Subfamily)
Batsch, 1788
Variants
Incorrect authorship
:
Muridae
(Family)
Illiger, 1811, err. bibl.
Ref:
A. Dubois & R. Bour, 2010
: table 3.
[
new
]
Synonyms
Including
:
Microtidae
(Family)
Cope, 1891
Ref:
[Anonymous], 1995
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
muizen en ratten
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
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