Muridae

family of rodents, including all true mice and many but not all rats and gerbils
Taxon taxon Q25916
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Muridae

Summary

Muridae is a taxon[1]. Muridae ranks in the top 0.65% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,161 views/month, #1,270 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Muridae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Muridae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Muridae belongs to the parent taxon Muroidea[5].
  • Muridae's scientific name is Muridae[6].
  • Muridae's Commons category is recorded as Muridae[7].
  • Muridae's temporal range start is recorded as Miocene[8].
  • Muridae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Muridae[9].
  • Muridae's topic's main category is recorded as Q6794881[10].
  • Muridae's Commons gallery is recorded as Muridae[11].
  • Muridae's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[12].
  • Muridae's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Muridae's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Muridae's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[15].
  • Muridae's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Muridae's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[17].
  • Muridae's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[18].
  • Muridae's topic has template is recorded as Q25720558[19].
  • Muridae is commonly known as muridé[20].
  • Muridae is commonly known as murid[21].
  • Muridae is commonly known as глувци[22].
  • Muridae is commonly known as musedo[23].
  • Muridae is commonly known as musefamilien[24].
  • Muridae is commonly known as miši[25].
  • Muridae's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].

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Classification

Muridae's scientific name is Muridae[6]. Muridae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Muridae belongs to the parent taxon Muroidea[5]. Recorded taxon common name include muridé[20], murid[21], глувци[22], musedo[23], musefamilien[24], and miši[25].

Identifiers

Muridae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 44185[27]. Muridae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 10066[28]. Muridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8698[29]. Muridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5510[30]. Muridae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180360[31].

Why It Matters

Muridae ranks in the top 0.65% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,161 views/month, #1,270 of 195,241).[2] Muridae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] Muridae is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  29. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 28d ago · NicoScribe · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Common organism → mouse
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P14067]]: [[Q2751034]]"
  2. 6w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i47800
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02334131-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  3. 9w ago · Jlwoodwa · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2241043
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +4
    Parent taxon → Muroidea
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages:0||59 */ Remove all redundant labels/aliases same as [[WD:MUL|mul]] label/aliases via [[User:Midleading/RemoveRedundantLabels.js]]"
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