family cricetidae
Noun
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Mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters (synset 102338001)
is a type of: mammal family - a family of mammalsmember holonym:
- new world mouse - a variety of rodent
- genus reithrodontomys, reithrodontomys - New World harvest mice
- genus peromyscus, peromyscus - New World wood mice
- baiomys, genus baiomys - pygmy mice
- genus onychomys, onychomys - grasshopper mice
- genus ondatra, ondatra - muskrats
- genus neofiber, neofiber - round-tailed muskrat
- genus sigmodon, sigmodon - American cotton rats
- wood rat, wood-rat - any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
- genus neotoma, neotoma - packrats
- genus oryzomys, oryzomys - rice rats
- genus pitymys, pitymys - pine mice
- genus microtus, microtus - voles of the northern hemisphere
- arvicola, genus arvicola - in some classifications considered synonymous with Microtus
- clethrionomys, genus clethrionomys - a genus of Cricetidae
- genus phenacomys - North American voles
- cricetus, genus cricetus - type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters
- genus mesocricetus, mesocricetus - golden hamsters
- gerbillinae, subfamily gerbillinae - gerbils
- genus meriones, meriones - a genus of Cricetidae
- lemming - any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution
- genus lemmus, lemmus - lemmings
- genus myopus, myopus - a genus of Cricetidae
- dicrostonyx, genus dicrostonyx - pied lemmings
- genus synaptomys, synaptomys - bog lemmings
belongs to: myomorpha, suborder myomorpha - true rats and mice and related rodentssame as: cricetidae
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