Rodentia

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Rodentia - small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis

order Rodentia

animal order - the order of animals

Eutheria, subclass Eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

gnawer, rodent - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Myomorpha, suborder Myomorpha - true rats and mice and related rodents

Hystricomorpha, suborder Hystricomorpha - an order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc.

Sciuromorpha, suborder Sciuromorpha - large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.

naked mole rat - fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites

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The order Rodentia is here very numerous in species: of mice alone I obtained no less than eight kinds.

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2009: Supraspecies relationships in the subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae): an unexpected result of nuclear gene analysis.

Phylogeny and phylogeography of arvicoline and lagurine voles of Mongolia

A multidisciplinary approach to the systematics of the genus Arvicanthis Leson, 1842 (Rodentia, Murinae).

Geometric Morphometry of Skulls Characteristics of Nine Species of Eothenomys

ARTHROPODS (ARATHROPODA: ARACHNIDA AND INSECTA) ASSOCIATED WITH THE NESTS OF NEOTOMA MEXICANA (MAMMALIA: RODENTIA) FROM SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, GUANAJUATO, MEXICO

ARTROPODOS (ARTHROPODA: ARACHNIDA E INSECTA) ASOCIADOS A LOS NIDOS DE NEOTOMA MEXICANA (MAMMALIA: RODENTIA) DE SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, GUANAJUATO, MEXICO

Middle ear structures of Octodon degus (Rodentia: Octodontidae), in comparison with those of subterranean caviomorphs.

Methods for Estimating the Volume of the Tympanic Bulla in the Big Hairy Armadillo Chaetophractus villosus (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae)/Metodos para la Estimacion del Volumen de Bula Timpanica en el Quirquincho Grande Chaetophractus villosus (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae)

Seuanez, "Comparative karyology in Akodon (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from Southeastern Brazil," The Journal of Heredity, vol.

Comparative Genomic In Situ Hybridization and the Possible Role of Retroelements in the Karyotypic Evolution of Three Akodontini Species

First record of Colombian Forest Mouse Chilomys instans (Cricetidae: Rodentia) in Cajamarca: updating the list of mammals from Peru

Primer registro del raton colombiano del bosque Chilomys instans (Cricetidae: Rodentia) en Cajamarca: actualizando el listado de mamiferos del Peru

Coccidian parasites (Eucoccidia: Eimeriidae) in European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus L., 1766) (Rodentia: Sciuridae) from Bulgaria.

Eimeria vilasi (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from the roundtailed ground squirrel (xerospermophilus tereticaudus)

Biosystematics and hosts of the Triatoma protracta complex in North America: (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Rodentia, Cricetidae).

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A special mention goes to David Goetz's imaginative production design that brings out Zootropolis' diverse and inclusive habitats in sunny Bunny-burrow, icy Tundratown and Little Rodentia.

Movie Review: Zootropolis

Officer Judy declares the case closed and speeds home through Little Rodentia where mice construction workers are maneuvering a red Jumbo-pop stick into place in a new apartments building.