Muridae

Belongs within: Myomorpha.
Contains: Gerbillinae, Acomys, Lophuromys, Murinae.

The Muridae include the typical Old World rats and mice. Murids ancestrally have non-hypsodont teeth with well-distinct cusps.

A mostly African subgroup including the genera Acomys and Lophuromys may be characterised by their stiffened pelage. The maned rat Lophiomys imhausi of eastern Africa is a distinctive large species bearing a prominent crest of long erect hairs. It has a contrasting colour pattern that may reflect its habit of sequestering toxins from the poison arrow tree Acokanthera schimperi, making it the only known toxic mammal. Rudd’s mouse Uranomys ruddi is an inhabitant of African savannahs. It is a small mouse with coarse brown hair dorsally, white hair ventrally and anteriorly projecting incisors. The link rat Deomys ferrugineus is an inhabitant of central African forest floors with a narrow, pointed head and very large ears.

<==Muridae
    |--+--Lophiomys [Lophiomyinae]FS15
    |  |    `--L. imhausiFS15
    |  `--+--GerbillinaeFS15
    |     `--+--Uranomys ruddiFS15
    |        `--+--AcomysFS15
    |           `--+--Deomys ferrugineusFS15
    |              `--LophuromysFS15
    `--+--MurinaeFS15
       `--+--PhloeomysFS15
          |    |--P. cumingiFS15
          |    |--P. elegansBP87
          |    `--P. pallidusFS15
          `--+--CarpomysFS15
             |    |--C. melanurusFS15
             |    `--C. phaeurusFS15
             `--+--‘Batomys’ salomonseniFS15
                `--+--BatomysFS15
                   |    |--B. dentatusFS15
                   |    `--+--B. grantiFS15
                   |       `--B. russatusFS15
                   `--CrateromysFS15
                        |--C. australisFS15
                        |--C. heaneyiFS15
                        |--C. paulusFS15
                        `--C. schadenbergiFS15

Muridae incertae sedis:
  SaidomysPS01
  Rhagapodemus Kretzoi 1959P04
    |--R. ballesioi Mein & Michaux 1970P04
    |--R. frequens Kretzoi 1950P04
    |    |--R. f. frequensP04
    |    `--R. f. athensis De Bruijn & Van der Meulen 1975P04
    |--R. hautimagnensis Mein & Michaux 1970P04
    `--R. wandeweerdi De Bruijn & Van der Meulen 1975P04
  Sylvaemus Ognev 1923P04
    |--S. atavus Heller 1936P04
    |--S. dominans (Kretzoi 1962) [=Apodemus dominans; incl. A. occitanus Pasquier 1974, Sylvaemus occitanus]P04
    |--S. flavicolis (Melchior 1834)P04
    `--S. sylvaticus (Linnaeus 1758)P04
  StenomysIT07
    |--S. ceramicusIT07
    |--S. klossii Thomas 1913T13
    |--S. omlichodesF99
    `--S. vandeuseniIT07
  NannospalaxIT07
    |--N. ehrenbergiIT07
    |--N. leucodonIT07
    `--N. nehringiIT07
  PhaulomysIT07
    |--P. andersoniIT07
    `--P. smithiiIT07
  MyomysIT07
    |--M. albipesIT07
    |--M. daltoniIT07
    |--M. derooiIT07
    |--M. fumatusIT07
    |--M. ruppiIT07
    |--M. verreauxiiIT07
    `--M. yemeniIT07
  ChroeomysIT07
    |--C. andinusIT07
    `--C. jelskiiIT07
  BolomysIT07
    |--B. amoenusIT07
    |--B. lactensIT07
    |--B. lasiurusIT07
    |--B. obscurusIT07
    |--B. punctulatusIT07
    `--B. temchukiIT07

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BP87] Burton, J. A., & B. Pearson. 1987. Collins Guide to the Rare Mammals of the World. Collins: London.

[FS15] Faurby, S., & J.-C. Svenning. 2015. A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 14–26.

[F99] Flannery, T. F. 1999. The Pleistocene mammal fauna of Kelangurr Cave, central montane Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 341–350.

[IT07] Isaac, N. J. B., S. T. Turvey, B. Collen, C. Waterman & J. E. M. Baillie. 2007. Mammals on the EDGE: conservation priorities based on threat and phylogeny. PloS One 2 (3): e296.

[PS01] Pickford, M., & B. Senut. 2001. The geological and faunal context of Late Miocene hominid remains from Lukeino, Kenya. Comptes Rendus de L’Academie des Sciences—Series IIA—Earth and Planetary Sciences 332: 145–152.

[P04] Popov, V. V. 2004. Pliocene small mammals (Mammalia, Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Rodentia) from Muselievo (north Bulgaria). Geodiversitas 26 (3): 403–491.

[T13] Thomas, O. 1913. On new mammals obtained by the Utakwa Expedition to Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 12: 205–212.