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Hamsters, Voles, Lemmings, and Allies
Cricetidae
The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At over 870 species, it is either the largest or second-largest family of mammals and has members throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 855 known species
Voles, Lemmings, and Muskrats
subfamilyArvicolinae
North American Mice and Rats
subfamilyNeotominae
South American Mice and Rats
subfamilySigmodontinae
Hamsters
subfamilyCricetinae
Vesper Rats
subfamilyTylomyinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55986.