Rodentia
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- Note
- Rodents (from Latin rodere, ´to gnaw´) are mammals of the order Rodentia (/roʊˈdɛnʃə/), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are native to all major land masses except for New Zealand, Antarctica, and several oceanic islands, though they have subsequently been introduced to most of these land masses by human activity.
Rodents are extremely diverse in their ecology and lifestyles and can be found in almost every terrestrial habitat, including human-made environments. Species can be arboreal, fossorial (burrowing), saltatorial/richochetal (leaping on their hind legs), or semiaquatic. However, all rodents share several morphological features, including having only a single upper and lower pair of ever-growing incisors. Well-known rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, prairie dogs, porcupines, beavers, guinea pigs, and hamsters. Rabbits, hares, and pikas, who also have incisors that grow continuously (but have two pairs of upper incisors instead of one), were once included with them, but are now considered to be in a separate order, the Lagomorpha. Nonetheless, Rodentia and Lagomorpha are sister groups, sharing a single common ancestor and forming the clade of Glires.
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Feldhamster - Cricetus cricetus
Der Feldhamster gehört heute...
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Feldhamster - Cricetus cricetus
Der Feldhamster gehört heute...
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Siebenschläfer - Glis glis
Der Siebenschläfer erhielt...
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Gartenschläfer - Eliomys quercinus
Der Gartenschläfer ist mit...
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Eichhörnchen - Sciurus vulgaris
Das Eichhörnchen - Sciurus...
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