Muridae

Familia: Muridae
Subfamiliae (5 + †2): Deomyinae – Gerbillinae – Leimacomyinae – Lophiomyinae – Murinae – †Myocricetodontinae – †Namibimyinae

Muridae Batsch, 1788

• Type genus: Mus Linnaeus, 1758

• Murina Batsch, 1788:115 [original spelling]
• Murina Illiger, 1811
• Murinorum Fischer, 1814
• Murini Fischer, 1817

• Batsch, A.J.G.C. 1788. Versuch einer Anleitung zur Kenntniss und Geschichte der Thiere und Mineralien. Erster Theil. Allgemeine Geschichte der Natur; besondre der Säugthiere, Vögel, Amphibien und Fische. Jena: Akademischen Buchandlung, 528 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.79854.

• Illiger, J.K.W. 1811. Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica. C. Salfield: Berolini. xviii + 302 pp. BHL Reference page. 
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• Fischer, G. 1814. Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata, in usum praelectionum Academiae Imperialis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquensis edita. Editio Tertia. Volumen Tertium. Quadrupedum reliquorum, cetorum et montrymatum descriptionem continens. Nicolai Sergeidis Vsevolozsky: Mosquae [=Moscow]. xxiv + 732 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Fischer, G. 1817. Adversaria zoologica. Fascicule I. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 5: 357–446. BHL. 1 De nexu corporum naturalium in universum. pp. 357–367. 2 De systemate Mammalium. pp. 368–391. 3 De mammalium generibus. pp. 391–446. Reference page. 
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• Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Dubois, A. & Bour, R. 2010. The distinction between family-series and class-series nomina in zoological nomenclature, with emphasis on the nomina created by Batsch (1788, 1789) and on the higher nomenclature of turtles. Bonn zoological Bulletin 57 (2): 149–171.
• Schenk, J.J., Rowe, K.C. & Steppan, S.J. 2013. Ecological Opportunity and Incumbency in the Diversification of Repeated Continental Colonizations by Muroid Rodents. Systematic Biology 62(6): 837–864. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt050 Reference page. 
• Denys, C., Taylor, P. & Aplin, K. 2017. Family Muridae (True Mice and Rats, Gerbils and relatives). Pp. 536–884 in Wilson, D.E., Lacher Jr., T.E. & Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.) . Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 7. Rodents II. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-16728-04-6 Reference page. 
• Aghová, T., Kimura, Y., Bryja, J., Dobigny, G., Granjon, L. & Kergoat, G.J. 2018. Fossils know it best: Using a new set of fossil calibrations to improve the temporal phylogenetic framework of murid rodents (Rodentia: Muridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 128: 98–111. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.07.017 Reference page.