The Muridae, or murids, are either the largest or second-largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 870 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.

2025年3月8日 · Muridae, (family Muridae), largest extant rodent family, indeed the largest of all mammalian families, encompassing more than 1,383 species of the “true” mice and rats. Two-thirds of all rodent species and genera belong to family Muridae.

Read about Muridae (Old World mice and rats, gerbils, whistling rats, and relatives) on the Animal Diversity Web.

2005年10月31日 · The Muridae is the largest family of mammals (numbering over 1300 species), with a great variety of adaptations to life in and around water. Oddly, however, there are no water rats in the Asian tropics.

2 天之前 · The meaning of MURIDAE is a very large family of relatively small rodents (superfamily Muroidea) that include various originally Old World rodents (as the house mouse and the common rats) that are now cosmopolitan in distribution and that in recent classifications often include the cricetid rodents as a subfamily (Cricetinae).

The Muridae, or murids, are the biggest rodent and mammal family in the world, with over 700 species including many mice, rats, and gerbils found in Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. Muridae is derived from the Latin mus (genitive murids), which means "mouse."

The Muridae, or murids, are the largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 1383 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.

Muridae is the largest family of mammals. It contains over 700 species. These species can be found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. They have been introduced worldwide. The group includes true mice and rats, gerbils, and relatives.

The family Muridae is the largest group of mammals and consists of rats, mice, and their relatives from the Old World. This includes 5 subfamilies divided into 150 genera and 730 species. Genetic evidence seems to indicate that they arose from hamster-like creatures during the Miocene in Asia and then radiated all over the world.

Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another. Component found in mineralized skeletal tissue, (a specialized form of biogenic tissue in which the extracellular matrix is mineralized, and which functions in mechanical and structural support.)