| Superfamily Muroidea GG Musser, MD Carleton Mammal Species of the World, a taxonomic and geographic reference (D.E …, 2005 | 2743* | 2005 |
| Family Muridae GG Musser, MD Carleton Mammal Species of the World, a taxonomic and geographic reference (D.E …, 1993 | 1091 | 1993 |
| Introduction to rodents MD Carleton Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and JK Jones …, 1984 | 398* | 1984 |
| Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae, Sigmodontinae): a synopsis of Microryzomys. MD Carleton, GG Musser Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 191, 1-83, 1989 | 392 | 1989 |
| Phylogenetic relationships in neotomine-peromyscine rodents (Muroidea) and a reappraisal of the dichotomy within New World Cricetinae. MD Carleton Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 157, 1-146, 1980 | 330 | 1980 |
| Muroid rodents MD Carleton, GG Musser Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and JK Jones …, 1984 | 316 | 1984 |
| Order Rodentia MD Carleton, GG Musser Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference (D.E …, 2005 | 277 | 2005 |
| A survey of gross stomach morphology in New World Cricetinae (Rodentia, Muroidea), with comments on functional interpretations MD Carleton Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 146, 1-43, 1973 | 250 | 1973 |
| Systematics and evolution MD Carleton Advances in the study of Peromyscus (G. L. Kirkland, Jr., and J. N. Layne …, 1989 | 236 | 1989 |
| A new genus for Hesperomys molitor Winge and Holochilus magnus Hershkovitz (Mammalia, Muridae), with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships. RS Voss, MD Carleton American Museum Novitates (3085), 1-39, 1993 | 134 | 1993 |
| The species of Oryzomys (Oligoryzomys) in Paraguay and the identity of Azara's "Rat sixieme ou Rat a tarse noir" P Myers, MD Carleton Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 161, 1-41, 1981 | 126* | 1981 |
| Taxonomy anddistributional records of Oriental and European Apodemus, with a review of the Apodemus-Sylvaemus problem GG Musser Bonn. Zool. Beitr. 46, 143-190, 1996 | 107 | 1996 |
| Amerigo Vespucci and the rat of Fernando de Noronha: a new genus and species of Rodentia (Muridae, Sigmodontinae) from a volcanic island off Brazil's continental shelf. MD Carleton, SL Olson American Museum Novitates (3256), 1-59, 1999 | 97 | 1999 |
| A new species of Habromys (Muroidea: Neotominae) from México, with generic review of species definitions and remarks on diversity patterns among Mesoamerican small mammals … MD Carleton, O Sanchez, G Urbano Vidales Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115 (3), 488-533, 2002 | 81 | 2002 |
| Interrelationships of populations of the Peromyscus boylii species group (Rodentia, Muridae) in western Mexico MD Carleton Occasional Papers Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 675, 1-47, 1977 | 70 | 1977 |
| Order rodentia GG Musser, MD Carleton Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference 2, 2005 | 63 | 2005 |
| Reproduction, growth and development in two contiguously allopatric rodent species, genus Scotinomys ET Hooper, MD Carleton Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 151, 1-52, 1976 | 62 | 1976 |
| Distribution and systematics of Peromyscus (Mammalia, Rodentia) of Nayarit, Mexico MD Carleton, DE Wilson, MA Bogan, AL Gardner Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 352, 1-46, 1982 | 61 | 1982 |
| Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae): definition and distribution of Oligoryzomys vegetus (Bangs, 1902) MD Carleton, GG Musser Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108, 338-369, 1995 | 57 | 1995 |
| Family cricetidae GG Musser, MD Carleton Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference 3, 1189-1531, 2005 | 53 | 2005 |
