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Welcome to Order Rodentia!

Rodentia - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Infraclass Placentalia > Superorder Euarchontoglires > Order Rodentia

(From Wikipedia) Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

FACT: Providing 40% of all mammal species, rodents are probably the largest order of mammals on the planet!

Currently discovered: 2/5 Suborders

Suborder

  1. Sciuromorpha - Squirrels, Dormice and Mountain Beavers
  2. Hystricomorpha - Ctenohystricans