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Murinae

Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae

Taxonomy

Murinae is a subfamily. It is extant.

It was assigned to Muridae by Ruedas and Kirsch (1997), Lundelius and Turnbull (1999) and Steppan et al. (2004).

Subtaxa

Antemus, Leopoldamys, Leporillus, Maxomys, Melomys, Mus (syn. Leggada), Myomys, Niviventer, Otomyini, Potwarmus, Rattini, Rattus (syn. Epimys), Sundamys

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1997	Murinae Ruedas and Kirsch
1999	Murinae Lundelius and Turnbull p. 132
2004	Murinae Steppan et al. p. 547

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes

Rank	Name	Author
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Gliriformes	Wyss and Meng 1996
—	Glires	()
—	Simplicidentata	()
order	Rodentia	Bowdich 1821
infraorder	Myodonta	Schaub 1958
superfamily	Muroidea	Illiger 1811
—	Eumuroida
family	Muridae	Illiger 1811
subfamily	Murinae
subfamily	Murinae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Murinae

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G. †Antemus Jacobs 1977

†Antemus chinjiensis Jacobs 1977

G. Leopoldamys Ellerman 1947

G. †Leporillus Thomas 1906

Leporillus apicalis Gould 1853

Leporillus conditor Surt 1848 [greater stick-nest rat]

G. Maxomys Sody 1936

G. Melomys Thomas 1922

G. Mus Linnaeus 1758 [house mouse]

Mus alexandrinus Geoffroy 1818