Cricetidae

[krə′sed·ə‚dē]

(vertebrate zoology)

A family of the order Rodentia including hamsters, voles, and some mice.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Cricetidae

a family of mammals of the order Rodentia. The body length is 5–36 cm, and the tail length is 0.7–33 cm. There are five subfamilies: Cricetinae, Microtinae, Gerbillinae, Neso-myinae, and Lophiomyinae. More than 600 species make up the family’s approximately 100 genera. The rodents are distributed in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, as well as on the island of Madagascar. Seventy-five species, belonging to the subfamilies Cricetinae, Microtinae, and Gerbillinae, are found throughout the USSR. The rodents include terrestrial, subterranean, arboreal, and semiaquatic forms. They are herbivorous or omnivorous. Some species damage agriculture and are carriers of infectious diseases. The pelts of a number of species are used as relatively inexpensive furs.

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CONCLUSION--Postcopemys is a rare cricetid element in the Hemphillian-Blancan of North American faunas.

New species of postcopemys (Cricetidae: rodentia) from the early pliocene of Lago De Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico

Ichthyomyines are New World cricetid rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae Wagner, 1843, which are ecologically and morphologically distinctive (Voss, 1988, 2015).

Polimorfismo molar e variacao no numero de dentes em um roedor semi-aquatico, Neusticomys oyapocki (Sigmodontinae, Ichthyomyini)

The African giant rat (AGR) (Cricetomys gambianus) also known as Gambian rat is wild cricetid rodent with an average adult weight of 1.4 kg occurring in Africa predominantly confined to moist savannah regions (Ajayi 1974).

Light and Electron Microscopic Study of Thyroid Gland in the African Giant Rat Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse

The percentages of the remaining species found in the mentioned localities are evenly matched, apart from the cricetids and insectivores in Alcoy-2 (Table 9).

The fossil rodent faunas of the localities Alcoy 2C and 2D (Alcoy Basin, Spain). Implications for dating the classical locality of Alcoy-Mina/ Las faunas de roedores fosiles de los yacimientos Alcoy 2C y 2D (Cuenca de Alcoy, Espana). Implicaciones para la datacion de la localidad clasica de Alcoy-Mina

Shared ancestry between a mole-borne hantavirus and hantaviruses harbored by cricetid rodents.

Novel bat-borne hantavirus, Vietnam

The purpose of this paper is to summarize information on the mammal fauna, including the presence of three previously undocumented species in Hendricks County: the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus), and two species of cricetid rodent, the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) and the western harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis).

Mammals of the Indianapolis International Airport conservation properties, Hendricks County, Indiana, with county records

In a related component of the model (Jones et al., 2003), we predicted that fire also would favor certain cricetid rodents over heteromyids by temporarily reducing ground cover.

Response of rodents to wildfire and livestock grazing in an Arizona desert grassland

(21.) Moriarty DJ: Three-dimensional home ranges of cricetid rodents.

Golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) and white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) dietary resource partitioning under experimental field conditions

These results indicate that the cricetid rodent Onychomys arenicola utilizes olfactory cues when making decisions during foraging bouts.

Adult foraging Behavior in mearns' grasshopper mouse, Onychomys arenicola (Rodentia: Muridae) is influenced by early olfactory experience

Heteromyid H 1.2 Thomomys H 3 Otospermophilus H 0.6 Sciurid 1 H 4.8 Sciurid 2 H 1.2 Cricetid. 1 H 1.8 Cricetid.

Differential preservation of fossil elements in the Maricopa Brea, California

Paleomammalogist Oldrich Fejfar has suggested to me in correspondence that Nyssa's fruit-pulp was important in the diet of the extinct cricetid rodent Melissiodon during the Miocene epoch.

Fossil record and ecology of Nyssa (Cornaceae)