Muridae

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 349

Muridae, a family of rodent quadrupeds, containing many genera and a very large number of species, distributed over all parts of the world, and of which rats and mice may be regarded as typical examples. To this family belong also voles, lemmings, dormice, jerboas, marmots, &c.

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