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Cricetidae Fischer 1817
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Description
Family CRICETIDAE (TRUE HAMSTERS, VOLES, LEMMINGS AND NEW WORLD RATS AND MICE)
• Very small to medium-large rodents, rarely large, mostly with generalized cursorial body plans and typically not sexually dimorphic.
• 10-70 cm.
• Holarctic and Neotropical regions, marginally into Indo-Malayan Region.
• Virtually all terrestrial and some aquatic habitats.
• 142 genera, 765 species, at least 1505 extant taxa.
• 20 species Critically Endangered, 32 species Endangered, 40 species Vulnerable; 15 species Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Cricetidae, pp. 204-535 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 279, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6707142
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fischer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cricetidae Fischer, 1817 sec. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher, 2017