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Rats, Mice and Lemmings
The late Dr. Coues described the members of this family in his usual terse style as "a feeble folk, comparatively insignificant in size and strength, holding their own in legions against a host of natural enemies, rapacious beasts and birds."
- Cooper's Lemming Mouse Synaptomys cooperi Baird
- Pied Lemming Dicrostonyx hudsonius (Pallas)
- False Lemming Mouse Phenacomys latimanus Merriam
- Red-backed Mouse Evotomys gapperi (Vigors)
Meadow Mouse Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord)- Meadow Mouse — Part 2 Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord)
- Meadow Mouse — Part 3 Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord)
- Brewer's Beach Mouse Microtus breweri (Baird)
- Rock Vole Microtus chrotorrhinus Miller
- Prairie Meadow Mouse Microtus austerus (Le Conte)
- Pine Mouse Microtus pinetorum (Le Conte)
Round-tailed Muskrat Microtus alleni (True)
Muskrat Fiber zibethicus Linnaeus- Muskrat — Part 2 Fiber zibethicus Linnaeus
- Muskrat — Part 3 Fiber zibethicus Linnaeus
- Alleghany Wood Rat Neotoma pennsylvanica Stone
Cotton Rat Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord- Rice-field Mouse Oryzomys palustris (Harlan)
- Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys lecontii (Audubon and Bachman)
White-footed Mouse Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque)- White-footed Mouse — Part 2 Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque)
- White-footed Mouse — Part 3 Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque)
- Florida Deer Mouse Peromyscus floridanus (Chapman)
- Oldfield Mouse Peromyscus subgriseus (Chapman)
- Red Mouse Peromyscus nuttalli (Harlan)
- Red Mouse — Part 2 Peromyscus nuttalli (Harlan)
Norway Rat Mus norvegicus Erxleben- Black Rat Mus rattus Linnaeus