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Muridae is the family of true mice and rats, the largest family of mammals, comprising several hundred species distributed across every continent except Antarctica. It includes the genus Mus, the typical mice, and the genus Rattus, the Old World rats, both of which have spread worldwide alongside human settlement.

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