A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Muridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Luzon Broad-toothed RatAbditomys latidens (Sanborn, 1952) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northeast African Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) cahirinus (É. Geoffroy, 1803) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chudeau's Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) chudeaui Kollman, 1911 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Turkish Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) cilicicus Spitzenberger, 1978 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) cineraceus Fitzinger & Heuglin, 1866 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fiery Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) ignitus Dollman, 1910 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kemp's Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) kempi Dollman, 1911 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Crete Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) minous Bate, 1906 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cyprus Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) nesiotes Bate, 1903 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Acomys (Acomys) ngurui Verheyen, Hulselmans, Wendelen, Leirs, Corti, Backeljau & Verheyen, 2011 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Acomys (Acomys) selousi De Winton, 1896 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern African Spiny MouseAcomys (Acomys) spinosissimus Peters, 1852 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cape Spiny MouseAcomys (Subacomys) subspinosus (Waterhouse, 1838) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bocage's AethomysAethomys bocagei (Thomas, 1904) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red Veld AethomysAethomys chrysophilus (de Winton, 1897) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hinde's AethomysAethomys hindei (Thomas, 1902) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tete Veld AethomysAethomys ineptus (Thomas & Wroughton, 1908) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaiser's AethomysAethomys kaiseri (Noack, 1887) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Nyika AethomysAethomys nyikae (Thomas, 1897) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Seilinda AethomysAethomys silindensis Roberts, 1938 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| West African AethomysAethomys stannarius (Thomas, 1913) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Thomas's AethomysAethomys thomasi (de Winton, 1897) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| AmmodileAmmodillus imbellis (de Winton, 1898) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Uneven-toothed RatAnisomys imitator Thomas, 1904 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mindoro Forest AnonymomysAnonymomys mindorensis Musser, 1981 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Striped Field MouseApodemus agrarius (Pallas, 1771) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small Japanese Field MouseApodemus argenteus (Temminck, 1845) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| South China Field MouseApodemus draco (Barrett-Hamilton, 1900) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Western Broad-toothed Field MouseApodemus epimelas (Nehring, 1902) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yellow-necked Field MouseApodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyrcanian Field MouseApodemus hyrcanicus Vorontsov, Boyeskorov & Mezhzherin, 1992 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Large-eared Field MouseApodemus latronum Thomas, 1911 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eastern Broad-toothed Field MouseApodemus mystacinus (Danford & Alston, 1877) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Himalayan Field MouseApodemus pallipes (Barrett-Hamilton, 1900) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Korean Field MouseApodemus peninsulae (Thomas, 1907) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caucasus Field MouseApodemus ponticus (Sviridenko, 1936) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kashmir Field MouseApodemus rusiges Miller, 1913 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Taiwan Field MouseApodemus semotus Thomas, 1908 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Field MouseApodemus sylvaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Luzon Cordillera ApomysApomys abrae (Sanborn, 1952) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Luzon ApomysApomys datae (Meyer, 1899) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Large Mindoro ApomysApomys gracilirostris Ruedas, 1995 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mindanao Mossy Forest ApomysApomys hylocetes Mearns, 1905 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mindanao Montane Forest ApomysApomys insignis Mearns, 1905 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mindanao Lowland ApomysApomys littoralis (Sanborn, 1952) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small Luzon ApomysApomys microdon Hollister, 1913 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Least Philippine ApomysApomys musculus Miller, 1911 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-nosed Luzon ApomysApomys sacobianus Johnson, 1962 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Isarog Shrew MouseArchboldomys luzonensis Musser, 1982 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ethiopian ArvicanthisArvicanthis abyssinicus (Rüppell, 1842) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.