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Are hamsters just rats

Updated: 8/20/2019
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No. Though rats can exhibit sexual aggression toward the same sex, that does not make them hamsters. Rats and hamsters are slightly related, but they are in different families.

Rat classification

  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Subphylum: Vertebrata
  • Class: Mammalia
  • Order: Rodentia
  • Suborder: Myomorpha (mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, lemmings, voles)
  • Superfamily: Muroidea (slender, scaled tails)
  • Family: Muridae
  • Subfamily: Murinae
  • Genus: Rattus
Hamster classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Subphylum: Vertebrata
  • Class: Mammalia
  • Order: Rodentia
  • Suborder: Myomorpha
  • Superfamily: Muroidea
  • Family: Cricetidae
  • Subfamily: Cricetinas
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