Sminthidae
Family of rodents
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They were formerly classified as the subfamily Sicistinae in the family Dipodidae alongside the jerboas and jumping mice, but phylogenetic evidence supports all three of these belonging to distinct families, thus leaving only the jerboas in Dipodidae.
Extant species
- Genus Sicista
- Armenian birch mouse Sicista armenica
- Northern birch mouse, Sicista betulina
- Short-taild birch mouse, Sicista brevicauda
- Caucasian birch mouse, Sicista caucasica
- Long-tailed birch mouse, Sicista caudata
- Tsimlyansk birch mouse, Sicista cimlanica
- Chinese birch mouse, Sicista concolor
- Kazbeg birch mouse, Sicista kazbegica
- Kluchor birch mouse, Sicista kluchorica
- Kashmir birch mouse, Sicista leathemi
- Nordmann's birch mouse, Sicista loriger
- Meigu birch mouse, Sicista meiguites
- Altai birch mouse, Sicista napaea
- Gray birch mouse, Sicista pseudonapaea
- Severtzov's birch mouse, Sicista severtzovi
- Strand's birch mouse, Sicista strandi
- Southern birch mouse, Sicista subtilis
- Talgar birch mouse, Sicista talgarica
- Terskey birch mouse, Sicista terskeica
- Tien Shan birch mouse, Sicista tianshanica
- Hungarian birch mouse, Sicista trizona
- Sichuan birch mouse, Sicista weigoldi
- Zhetysu birch mouse, Sicista zhetysuica
- Genus Breviforamen
- Short-foramen birch mouse, Breviforamen shannanense
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Extinct genera
These extinct genera are definitively known:
- Genus †Allosminthus
- Genus †Heosminthus
- Genus †Heterosminthus
- Genus †Gobiosminthus
- Genus †Lophocricetus
- Genus †Macrognathomys
- Genus †Megasminthus
- Genus †Miosicista
- Genus †Parasminthus
- Genus †Plesiosminthus
- Genus †Schaubemys
- Genus †Shamosminthus
- Genus †Sinosminthus
- Genus †Tyrannomys
The Eocene genera Primisminthus and Banyuesminthus could represent even older members of Sminthidae, although other studies speculate that they may be basal dipodoids.
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