Suborder
Sciuromorpha (Squirrels, dormice, and mountain beavers)
Glaucomys oregonensis. Photo: (c) Mourad Gabriel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
Sciuromorpha (“squirrel-like”) is a rodent clade that includes several different rodent families. It includes all members of the Sciuridae (the squirrel family) as well as the mountain beaver species.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires (Primates, rodents, and allies)
- Order: Rodentia (Rodents)
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha (Squirrels, dormice, and mountain beavers)
- Order: Rodentia (Rodents)
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires (Primates, rodents, and allies)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
