Back Murinae AN فئران وجرذان العالم القديم Arabic فئران ARZ Murins Catalan Altweltmäuse German Murinae English Musenoj Esperanto Murinae Spanish Murinae Basque نیاموشان Persian
| Murinae Temporal range: Middle Miocene – Recent
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| Mus musculus, the house mouse | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae Illiger, 1811 |
The Old World rats and mice (called Murinae) is a subfamily in the family Muridae. It has about 560 species. This subfamily is larger than all mammal families except the Cricetidae. It is also larger than most mammal orders.