Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)
10. Rodentia (order)
11. Cricetidae (family)
12. Ondatra (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Members of the only living species in its genus. It is a medium-sized rodent with a laterally flattened tail, short legs, and a compact body, indigenous to wetlands of North America but found also in South America, Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Siberia, adjacent areas of China and Mongolia, and Honshu Island in Japan.