cricetidae meaning
Noun: Cricetidae
- Mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters
- family Cricetidae
Type of: mammal family
Part of: Myomorpha, suborder Myomorpha
Encyclopedia: Cricetidae
[Medicine]
A subfamily of the Muridae consisting of 20 genera. Voles,lemmings,and muskrats are included in this subfamily. They occur nearly world-wide. n pl : a family of rodents comprising the New World mice, the lemmings, voles, hamsters, and related forms that are mostly small, resemble mice or rats, and have three molar teeth on each side — cri·ce·tid adj or n
Examples
More: Next- Shrews are muroid rodent families Muridae and Cricetidae and the bat family Vespertilionidae.
- The circumscription of Cricetidae has gone through several permutations.
- The Turkish hamster is a rare species, but is the most widespread of the family Cricetidae.
- Oryzomyini in turn is part of the subfamily Sigmodontinae of family Cricetidae, along with hundreds of other species of mainly small rodents.
- It is one of several subfamilies recognized in the family Cricetidae, which includes many more species, mainly from Eurasia and North America.